curiosity quotes

• He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future. (Walter Benjamin) [future/more/curiosity/more]
• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. (Edmund Burke) [human/mind/curiosity]
• Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. (Alistair Cooke) [curiosity/people/generosity/argument]
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity. (Albert Einstein) [thing/curiosity/help/life]
• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. (Albert Einstein) [talent/curiosity/]
• Never lose a holy curiosity. (Albert Einstein) [curiosity]
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein) [curiosity/education]
• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [curiosity]
• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. (Anatole France) [art/art/curiosity]
• 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. (Oliver Goldsmith) [housing/impulse/curiosity]
• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. (Victor Hugo) [curiosity]
• Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. (Samuel Johnson) [curiosity/mind]
• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. (Samuel Johnson) [curiosity/pleasure]
• Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. (Charles Lamb) [curiosity/feeling/hope-disappointment]
• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. (George Bernard Shaw) [love/curiosity/take/advantage]
• Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. (Evelyn Waugh) [curiosity/future/age]
• What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. (Oscar Wilde) [sin/civilization & progress/curiosity/sin]
• My greatest strength in all of this, besides my discipline, is my curiosity. (Gabrielle Reece) [discipline/curiosity]
• I do have a massive curiosity. (Ben Kingsley) [curiosity]
• If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. (Diane Sawyer) [follow/curiosity]
• “I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.” (Rachel McAdams) [curiosity/life]
• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [curiosity]
• Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. (Steven Wright) [curiosity]

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