Curiosity Quotes - Page 7

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #‎ change our lives.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.

Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so; I'd rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.