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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CURIOSITY
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
Apocrypha (A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).)
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959, American actress)
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British poet)
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
Luis Bunuel (1900-1983, Spanish film director)
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
Luis Bunuel (1900-1983, Spanish film director)
That low vice, curiosity!
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke (1908-2004, British broadcaster, journalist)
I love to doubt as well as to know.
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321, Italian philosopher, poet)
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day (1874-1935, American essayist)
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
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 everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
Edward M. Forster (1879-1970, British novelist, essayist)
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 (1844-1924, French writer)
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679, British philosopher)
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
There are different kinds of curiosity: one comes from self-interest, which makes us want to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which comes from a desire to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989, American author, critic)
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
Akio Morita (1921-, Japanese businessman, CEO of Sony Corporation)
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
Desmond Morris (1928-, British anthropologist)
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley (1922-, American short story writer)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps
A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers (1902-1987, American psychotherapist)
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 would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Edward Sagan (1934-, American astronomer, author)
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667, British churchman, writer)
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962, British historian)
I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie.
Christy Turlington (1969-, American model)
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives
Author Unknown
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
Sir William Watson (1858-1935, British poet)
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately (1787-1863, British prelate, writer)
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