Quotes

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-James Stephens

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
-Arnold Edinborough

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
-Oscar Wilde

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
-Albert Einstein

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
-Samuel Johnson

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
-George Macaulay Trevelyan

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
-Eugene O'Neill

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-Edmund Burke

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
-S. Leonard Rubinstein

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-Abraham Cowley

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
-Augustus William Hare

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
-Abraham Cowley

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
-Malcolm X

People die when curiosity goes.
-Graham Swift

You know what a woman's curiosity is?
-Oscar Wilde

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
-Yiddish Proverb

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Ellen Parr

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein

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

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
-William Lyon Phelps

His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity.
-Anonymous Author

Curiosity is nothing more than freewheeling intelligence.
-Anonymous Author

I loathe that low vice curiosity.
-Lord Byron

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity, Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
-Kerry Livgren

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
-Anatole France

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

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-Stephen Wright

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
-Dorothy Parker

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

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

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America, when they have their mothers and their manners.
-Oscar Wilde

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
-James Harvey Robinson