It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
~By Aaron Klug ~
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.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
~By Ian Hacking ~
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
~By Anatole France ~
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
~By James Kirkwood ~
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
~By Martin Bashir ~
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
~By Steven Wright ~
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
~By Albert Einstein ~
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
~By Freya Stark ~
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.
~By Ted Allen ~
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
~By John Singer Sargent ~
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
~By Elvis Costello ~
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
~By Paul Berg ~
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
People die when curiosity goes.
~By Graham Swift ~
The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
~By Bryan Magee ~
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
~By Elvis Costello ~
The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
~By Javier Bardem ~
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
~By Ezra Pound ~
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
~By Tina Yothers ~
It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
~By Michael Dell ~
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
~By Samuel Horsley ~
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
~By John Burroughs ~
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
~By Malcolm X ~
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
~By Kenneth G. Wilson ~
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
~By Robert Benchley ~
The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
~By Petrarch ~
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~By Graham Greene ~
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~By Robert Wilson Lynd ~
My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~By e. e. cummings ~
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~By Anatole France ~
Never lose a holy curiosity.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.
~By Hector Babenko ~
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
~By Richard Whately ~
For infants and toddlers learning and living are the same thing. If they feel secure, treasured, loved, their own energy and curiosity will bring them new understanding and new skills.
~By Amy Laura Dombro ~
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
~By Fawn M. Brodie ~
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
~By David Attenborough ~
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.
~By William Wirt ~
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
~By Russell Baker ~
I have an inate curiosity about people.
~By Martin Bashir ~
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~By Walt Disney ~
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
~By R. D. Laing ~
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 should be curiosity.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
~By Claire Danes ~
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
~By Joseph Addison ~
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
~By Vincent Canby ~
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
~By John Barton ~
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Love is three quarters curiosity.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~By Linus Pauling ~
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.
~By Auguste Lumiere ~
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
~By Penelope Lively ~
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
~By Martha Beck ~
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
~By Anne Rice ~
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
~By Abraham Cowley ~
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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