Curiosity Quotes

I don’t read my reviews. I do die inside when readers at book signings say they do not read history books but they like to read mine. Who brags about a lack of intellectual curiosity?

Toynbee wrote the monumental “A Study of History,” a 12-volume project that consumed most of his life. At a 1961 press conference announcing the completion of the massive project, he was asked by a reporter, “What purpose has impelled you to devote thirty-five years of your life to this single great work.” Toynbee answered the […]

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

You know what a woman’s curiosity is. Almost as great as a man’s!

To go beneath the surface argues the curious – not the profound.

He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common – inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.

People die when curiosity goes.