Quotes of: Curiosity Keyword

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Jose Saramago

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

Hilary Duff

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Randy Schekman

The quest for knowledge never ends; it just leads to more curiosities that lead to a greater mind.

Edmond Mbiaka

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

John Aubrey

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

Dorothy Parker

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.

Baris Gencel

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Bryan Magee

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

James Wolcott

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

John Cage

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

R. D. Laing

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

Paul Theroux

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

Michael Palin

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

Tina Yothers

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Abraham Cowley

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.

Jamie Cullum

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never...

The Golden Notebook

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a book to me – the only book I ever learned to read; and many an old story it tells me. It’s music, for I should know its voice among a thousand...

The Old Curiosity Shop