Quotes
Quotes about Curiosity
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
