Curiosity Quotations | Page 4

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.

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

That low vice, curiosity!

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

At first it was all a bit of a local curiosity. People would come to see these strange-looking birds that reminded them of ancient Egypt. But it's long since stopped being a joke. There are simply too many of them.

They have an emotional connection. It's not just out of curiosity or politeness. People feel passionate.

There's a lot of curiosity about him. We're hearing so much about him lately, that we wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

It's kind of always been a curiosity for the scientists.

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress." ()

There's a real sense of curiosity about what is being proposed. If one is to be constructed, let's move it forward.

He?s got a rare combination of interest, curiosity and talent. And humility.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

For the kids to be able to see for themselves and take part in something that many will never have the opportunity of doing means a lot to them. It (Immersion) sparks their curiosity in ways school will never be able to, and the kids really appreciate that.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

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

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a researcher who compiles the fact sheets and chronologies that allow me to write these big books of mine.

The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here's my question. If we're on the surface of Mars, aren't we the UFO?

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity,

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

People die when curiosity goes.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

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

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

My curiosity sister of larks.

Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Curiosity killed the cat.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.