Curiousity Quotes

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.”
― Albert Einstein

“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?"

"The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”
― Guy Kawasaki

“I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Stay in the boat, I told myself, watching them walk up to the pavilion. I'll just stay in the boat. I won't go anywhere near that creature.
But in spite of that wise warning, I climbed out of the boat.
Fine, stretch your legs, I told myself. Just don't follow them.
But of course, I followed them.
You are without question your own worst enemy, I scolded myself, even as I tiptoed after them.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Princess Curse

“If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place.

What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.”
― Milton Glaser

“Man is incurably curious.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“It was wrong not to be curious, it was wrong not to wonder.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood and watched him pass and watched him vanish upon that landscape solely because he was passing. Solely because he would vanish.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“The more you learn, the more you want to learn.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“In this ever changing world of ours, it's important for employees to be curious and lifelong learners.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“... better to find out once and for all than to spend the rest of the summer, or my life perhaps, arguing with my body...”
― André Aciman

“Humans spent thousands of years looking up at the stars and wondering what was out there. You guys never saw stars at all but you still worked space travel. What an amazing people you Eridians must be. Scientific geniuses.'

The knot in the tape comes loose, recoils wildly, and smacks Rocky's hand. He shakes the affected hand in pain for a moment, then continues messing with the tape measure.

'Yeah, you're definitely a scientist.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Wait,' he says, taking a step toward me. 'I want to see you again.'

I groan, too exasperated for surprise. I am standing here in a borrowed blanket, boots, and mall-bought underwear. I am smeared in soil, and I have just made a fool of myself. 'Why?'

He looks at me as though he sees something else entirely. There's an intensity in his gaze that makes me stand up a little straighter, despite the dirt. 'Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Actually, it’s rather curious. We are face-to-face with one of the most complex theological issues. Does a foot, detached from its body…have an afterlife?”
― Olivier Schrauwen, Portrait of a Drunk

“It is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be impertinently curious how it comes.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right.”
― Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

“There was a familiar, hard bitterness in him now, and a curiosity he could not deny, and a third thing, like the quickening hammer of a pulse, beneath both of these.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne

“Little did the children realize then that these walks - a time of freedom and play for them - were in reality precious lessons in science, history and biology.”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

“If you’re a college professor and you’re bored, it’s your own damn fault.”
― Dorsey Armstrong, Powerful Women of the Medieval World

“One life to live and humans spend the majority of it worrying about our variations. Mind blowing.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“There is a mythical element to our childhood, it seems, that stays with us always. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious and alive and fills us with desire and wonder, fear, and guilt. With the passing of the years, however, those memories become distant and malleable, and we shape them into the stories of who we are. We are brave, or we are cowardly. We are loving, or we are cruel.”
― Eowyn Iovey

“Is it true that you left Tamlin because he locked you up in his house?'

I tried to block out the memory, the terror and agony of my heart breaking apart. But I nodded.

'And is it true that you were saved from confinement by the Night Court?'

I nodded again.

Tarquin said, 'The Spring Court is my southern neighbour. I have tenuous ties with them. But unless asked, I will not mention that you were here.'

Thief, liar, manipulator. I didn't deserve his alliance.

But I bowed my head in thanks.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“And if you have curiousity, you have everything: 1. It's nearly impossible for you to be bored. 2. You'll be a lifelong learner. 3. You'll probably be a traveler. 4. You'll definitely be an empathetic person, because you'll want to learn people's stories and what makes them tick.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“A child's curiosity is greater, bolder, and louder than the fear within.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Curiosity was my greatest vice.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses