Curiosity Quotes - Page 12

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.