Curiosity Quotes

“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
― Freya Stark

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.”
― Kate Griffin, The Midnight Mayor

“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”
― Clarence Day, This Simian World

“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”
― David McCullough

“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

“No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Curiosity is a call from knowledge.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”
― Mary Catherine Bateson

“Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.”
― James Bridie

“No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead. ”
― Michael Reisman, Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper

“From time to time
I once wondered how one wanders from time to time
And think up the paradox line
Speak of Epoch's crime
Oh I lied, it hasn't happened yet
But bet you better believe it's such a habit that
I just said that in a past mindset”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.”
― Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty

“Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .'

He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls' bladders that boys use to learn swimming. Sterlingov angrily spat out his cigarette.

'Well? What about?'

'A . . . about a secret matter ,' Alyoshka whispered.

Dozens of ears floated around them in the dust waves; the whisper was heard, and it ran on like a spark along a gunpowder wick. Alyoshka's secret message, the mysterious special clothing, the deacon's catastrophe-all this was too much. The atmosphere was charged with thousands of volts, and something was needed to discharge the electricity, to clear the air. ("X")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

“Most people would not open a door unless they knew what lay beyond, and even if they opened the door by mistake, they would find an uninteresting room beyond.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Novice

“Curiosity improved the cat”
― Brandon Nankivell

“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere back in Baltimore. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafés seeing young poets flip though "The Waste Land," or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, have not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.”
― Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

“Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.”
― Tom Clancy, Executive Orders

“How shall I know, unless I go
To Cairo and Cathay,
Whether or not this blessed spot
Is blest in every way?

Now it may be, the flower for me
Is this beneath my nose;
How shall I tell, unless I smell
The Carthaginian rose?

The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Great beauty can be found in harmonious contrast variations, and brief uses of extremes.

Vastly.”
― Apsixaristw

“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. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.”
― Samuel Beckett, Proust

“You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…”
― Muriel Spark, The Comforters

“En cierta ocasión Demócrito comió en su mesa unos higos que sabían a miel y empezó de inmediato a indagar en su espíritu de dónde provenía tal dulzura inusitada. A fin de esclarecerlo, iba a levantarse de la mesa para mirar la situación del lugar donde se habían cogido los higos, pero la camarera, que había comprendido la causa de tal agitación, le dijo riendo que no se esforzara más por eso, porque los había puesto en un recipiente que había contenido miel. Demócrito se irritó pues le había privado de una ocasión para investigar, y hurtado una materia para su curiosidad. «¡Vaya!», le dijo, «me has disgustado. Sin embargo, no renunciaré a buscar la causa como si fuese natural». Y probablemente no habría dejado de encontrar alguna razón verdadera para un efecto falso y supuesto. Esta historia de un famoso y magno filósofo nos representa con suma claridad la pasión estudiosa que nos empuja a perseguir cosas de cuya adquisición no tenemos esperanza. Plutarco refiere un ejemplo similar de alguien que no quería que le aclarasen aquello que le suscitaba dudas para no perder el placer de investigarlo. Como aquel otro, que no quería que su médico le librara de la alteración de la fiebre para no perder el placer de calmarla bebiendo. Satius est superuacua discere quam nihil [Es mejor aprender cosas superfluas que nada (Séneca, Cartas a Lucilio)].”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Pursue your dream with passionate commitment to the divine purpose.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!