Curiosity Quotes - Page 16

Curiosity is its own reason.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

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

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

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.

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

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.

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.