Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity Quotations

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity