CURIOSITY QUOTES II

quotations about curiosity

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If a sound justification for most scientific activity is going to be found, it will eventually come perhaps from a recognition that man's sense of curiosity about the world and himself is every bit as compelling as his need for clothing and food.

LARRY LAUDEN

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Curiosity is looking over other people's affairs, and over-looking our own.

H. L. WAYLAND

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"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice. (She was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English.)

LEWIS CARROLL

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Wisdom. No match for the troublemaker Curiosity.

DAVID BRIN

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Right now, right now
You keep this flame I have alight in me
And with this cat, it's curiosity
That keeps me hanging on night and day

LITTLE RIVER BAND

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He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt.

JOHN RAY

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Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math.

MICHIO KAKU

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'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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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

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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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Let curiosities alone.

THOMAS À KEMPIS

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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this the plant goes to wreck and ruin without fail.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

DANIEL QUINN

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A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

EVAN ESAR

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Curiosity can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions, well recognized as feminine, are inimical to feline life, then jealousy would soon leave the whole world catless.

O. HENRY

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The principle of curiosity, which was implanted in man for high and holy ends, took a wrong bent and direction at the moment of his first transgression; and is to be rectified only by the influence of the same spirit, who first breathed it into the soul. A restless appetite of knowledge more than God has revealed, which made the first man rebel against his Maker, has ever since been a fruitful source of evil and misery.

BISHOP BLOMFIELD

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Crush not only our surrounding walls
of curiosity, but also the hordes
of Blind Believers

DARKTHRONE

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Curious and bored
Stumbled through the door
Tripping over expectations
She never knew before
Then, curiosity
Turns her gaze to me
I think she caught me staring at her
But I just had to see

K.D. LANG

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Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized in turn by Christianity, by philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen as futility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes "care"; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way; a passion for seizing what is happening now and what is disappearing; a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

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Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

ST. AUGUSTINE

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