Curiosity Quotes

21 quotations about Curiosity

The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.

Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

That low vice, curiosity!

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

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