Curiosity Quotes

“Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!”
― Ann Fairbairn

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Mermon's tiny black dot eyes managed to widen into larger black dots. "No, no, no, Sir. I was just... curious."
"Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes you breath smell terrible. and too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead."
Veenie nodded carefully; it was a strange threat, but a threat nonetheless.”
― Michael Reisman, Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper

“Curiosity invites us to move with life’s harmonious dance and to remember that we, too, are an essential part of Life’s sacred rhythm.”
― Audrey Sutton Mills, Quiet the Itty Bitty Shitty Committee: Five Self-Love Tools to Silence Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Worth

“Over the years, she had become a quiet collector of possibilities.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, 21st Century Intolerant: A collection of short stories about the struggles of modern life, from the trivial to the terrifying.

“To know the world in its fullness is to pay homage to the mystery of existence itself.”
― Rushan Khan, The Polymath’s Path: Mastery Beyond Limits

“Nature carries secret messages, if only we are quiet enough to listen.”
― Angela Ehrlich, Zahra and the Secret Inside the Raindrop: Zahra Sees the World Differently. A Heartwarming Story About Autism, Friendship, and the Power of Love

“Don't confuse the window for the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The horizon is not for conquest but for curiosity.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Obtuse as most men are, with things going on right under their eyes, it is not easy to baffle them when once their curiosity is roused. And yet curiosity is always imputed exclusively to women: though Eve was the first to taste the apple, Adam had no intention of being behindhand.”
― Jenny Wren, Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl

“You can't save a fisher from water.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Try stepping outside your comfort zone. Talk to different people. Read news you would never normally read. The best possible future is almost certainly the one where we all let go of our unexamined assumptions.”
― F.C. Quiles

“You must be curious before you can truly be creative.”
― Matthew Greger, Think Brilliance: How to Harness the Power of Curiosity and Creativity to Solve Problems, Discover New Ideas, and Drive Innovation

“My goal in life is to know a river beyond its name. We give things names and somehow fool ourselves that we know them. Maybe that's where curiosity ends. A name is no longer enough.”
― Sai Pradeep

“One should never tell a child to be less weird or stop asking questions. There is nothing wrong with being hard to categorize, even if parents, teachers, and colleagues conspire to do this for no good reason. Einstein knew this. That’s why his advice to that young boy was, “Never lose a holy curiosity.”
― Charles Steel, The Curious Mind of Elon Musk: 9 Ways He Thinks Differently

“Certainty is the enemy of wisdom.”
― F.C. Quiles

“Reality is rarely what we think it is. Looking at it from new and different perspectives can show that we too often look for answers to meaning in the wrong place.”
― Charles Steel, The Curious Mind of Elon Musk: 9 Ways He Thinks Differently

“Young & Curious Minds can fathom Profound Quest … Rest Merely Live.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Better questions lead to clearer answers, and clearer answers lead to more confident decisions.”
― Maeser, Ingredient Dictionary: It's Not for Kids: What's Really in Baby Products, Kids' Food, Vaccines, and Teen Personal Care — The Parent's Guide to Toxic Ingredients From Birth Through the Teen Years

“Її охопив розпач, як буває, коли ніхто довкола не цікавить тебе в сексуальному сенсі.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“Intelligence free from dogma creates freedom. Freedom open to discovery creates innovation.”
― F.C. Quiles

“Intent matters, and curiosity isn't the same as contempt (p148)”
― Ardra Shephard, Fallosophy: My Trip through Life with MS

“I was ravenous for words and information. A born temperament of inherent curiosity turned up to ten was only part of it. I liked to swim in the warm, safe soup of words and images that I compulsively ingested.”
― Carmen Rita Wong, Why Didn't You Tell Me?

“For all those who dare to ask why. And for the ones who cannot stop.”
― J. W. Sands, Transcending Trinity

“Searching for things that inspire elation allows us to effervesce with great joy each day.
Discover others’ kindness, discover your own—
doing so will bring wondrous joy!”
― Zhen-Ru, Kindling Hope: Daily Passages from Darkness into Light

“Every herb has a story, and every story begins with a seed of curiosity”
― Brenna Hendrick, A is for Anise

“Beware of uncurious questions.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“People with fixed mindsets will always find their way to “no.” The more they use it, the more they’ll find themselves bumping up against others. An open mind frees you from all that.”
― Anton Rabie

“When leaders are resistant to people asking why, they deny themselves the gift of a different perspective.”
― Anton Rabie, Different: An Unconventional Guide to Becoming Your Best Self

“People had secrets. Not the grand sort found in newspapers, but ordinary secrets, things tucked into drawers and locked in boxes, things people had never told their neighbors and might never tell anyone.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse