Curiosity Quotes - Page 3

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Play in curiosity is where everything happens.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.