Curiosity Quotes - Page 21

I have a natural curiosity for people.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

We've created a community and these images [from Vogue] will live on with exhibitions, postcards, projections. We help them gain more exposure. Instagram already works as a selection. It's my curiosity into the world of youth, what they do, what they buy.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another