Curiosity Quotes

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.

Augustine

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

What can limit the excursive flight of human curiosity? It dives into the bowels of the earth, explores the mine, and speculates on the formation of the world itself. The sea forms no obstacle to its career. It visits the equator and the poles, and circumnavigates the globe. Nor does it take a cursory flight only, which seems merely to measure space: it pauses to meditate and to inquire. There is not an animal that traverses the desert, there is not an insect that crawls on the ground, there is not a flower that blooms in the air, there is not a stone cast carelessly along our path, but it stops, and interrogates, and forces to declare its nature.

John Young

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity.

Einstein

Our inquisitiveness is excited by having its gratification deferred.

Pliny The Younger

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Einstein

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

Samuel Johnson

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this the plant goes to wreck and ruin without fail.

Einstein

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

He that enlarges his curiosity after the works of nature, demonstrably multiplies the inlets to happiness.

Samuel Johnson

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

The love of variety, or curiosity of seeing new things, seems wove into the frame of every son and daughter of Adam; we usually speak of it as one of nature's levities, though planted within us for the solid purpose of carrying forward the mind to fresh inquiry and knowledge; strip us of it, the mind would doze forever over the present page; and we should all of us rest at ease with such objects as presented themselves in the parish or province where we first drew breath.

John Epps

Human curiosity, though at first slowly excited, being at last possessed of leisure for indulging its propensity, becomes one of the greatest amusements of life, and gives higher satisfaction than what even the senses can afford.

Oliver Goldsmith

Curiosity is a fragile thing, easily dissipated by more pressing concerns unless it's encouraged and guided into subsequent inquiry. The crucial moment when curiosity is either developed or dropped is the point at which a problem is articulated. It is the moment when "I wonder what..." is replaced by, "What if I..." or "Why don't we try to..." We can put this more formally: in order for curiosity to be educationally productive, it must be turned into problem-solving. This transformation occurs when a problem is set. Problem-setting is the process by which a matter of curiosity is articulated in such a way that it becomes amenable to inquiry that is relatively systematic.

Donald Arnstin

Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

John Locke

Curiosity is the forerunner of discovery.

Duke

Curiosity is a feeling which causes us not to be content with the beauty and fragrance of the flower, but which prompts us to look under the rose.

Elizabeth Inchbald

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Samuel Johnson

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.

Roy T Bennett

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

C S Lewis

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Charles Baudelaire

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Ken Robinson

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Michael J Fox