Quotes About Curiosity

"Awaken the curiosity within'you."

— Anonymous

"Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will."

— James Stephenson

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."

— Steve Jobs

"All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections."

— Arthur Aufderheide

"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

"Let your curiosity lead you down a road that is less travelled."

— Anonymous

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

— Voltaire

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature."

— Freya Stark

"To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd."

— Plato

"Curiosity is the ability to seek and acquire new knowledge, skills, and ways of understanding the world. It is central to what motivates us to learn and what keeps us learning throughout our lives. Curiosity lights our lives, inspires us to seek out answers."

— Unknown

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

— William Lyon Phelps

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

— Albert Einstein

"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

— Mary McCarthy.

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

— Anatole France

"Be curious. Read'widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity."

— Aaron Swartz

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

— Mae Jemison

"Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."

— Steve Jobs

"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry."

— Robert G. Ingersoll

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

— Walt Disney

"The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds."

— Robin Sharma

"Learning is by nature, curiosity."

— Plato

"Curiosity is life."

— Mark Parker

"When we are curious about a topic, it is easier to learn"

— Neuron (Journal)

"I am in love with hope."

— Mitch Albom, author

"Pessimism is an absence of hope or curiosity in how we can create a better future."

— Mitch Albom, author

"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

— Golda Meir

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."

— Samuel Johnson

"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."

— Mae Jemison

"A curious state of mind improves learning and memory"

— Neuron (Journal)

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."

— Indira Gandhi

"When you're curious you find lots of interesting things to do."

— Walt Disney

"Curiosity is the engine of achievement."

— Ken Robinson

"Curiosity is a willing, a proud, and eager confession of ignorance."

— S.Leonard Rubinstein

"Curiosity is the fuel for discovery, inquiry, and learning."

— Anonymous

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

— Thomas Hobbes

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

— Zora Neale Hurston

"Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination."

— Benny Goodman

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

— Richard Whately

"We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious."

— Barry Charles Diller, Fox Broadcasting Company

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."

— Oscar Wilde

"Skepticism is the first step towards truth."

— Denis Diderot

"If you're curious about how and why things work, and are keen to uncover explanations, then you're more likely to succeed than your colleagues."

— Unknown

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man, the function of his reasoning mind."

— Ayn Rand

"The future belongs to the curious."

— Anonymous

"Be curious, not judgmental."

— Walt Whitman

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."

— Bryant H. McGill

"Curiosity lights our lives, inspires us to seek out answers."

— Unknown

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."

— Albert Einstein

"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."

— George Eliot

"Knowing the answers will help you in school. Knowing how to question will help you in life."

— Warren Berger

"Curiosity may put the brain in a state that allows it to learn and retain any kind of information."

— Dr. Matthias Gruber

"Ideas come from curiosity."

— Walt Disney

"'Your curiosity is your growth point always."

— Danielle LaPorte

"Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

— Thomas Hobbes

"Millions saw the apple fall, but newton asked why."

— Bernard Baruch

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

— William Ward

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."

— Billy Cox

"Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed."

— J. K. Rowling

"If you can let go of passion and follow your curiosity, your curiosity just might lead you to your passion."

— Elizabeth Gilbert

"Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind."

— Rose Wilder Lane

"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."

— Albert Einstein

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"A hungry mind is as significant as intelligence and effort in determining academic performance"

— Von Strumm, Hell, & Chamorro-Premuzic

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

— Arthur Schopenhauer

"Curiosity about life in all aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

— Leo Burnett