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?

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.

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.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.