It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
Curiosity Quotes
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity – enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
