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Curiosity Quotes

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Stephen        King
“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”
Stephen King, 11/22/63

Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Anatole France
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Anatole France

Rebecca Harlem
“You are not the first person to come here, and you will most likely not be the last. Many souls have arrived here in quest of this thing before you and will continue to do so after you. Here, everything revolves in a circle. You must have noticed that some events in your life are also occurring in the lives of others. Or you’re meeting people with the same name again.”
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

“I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“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

Criss Jami
“It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Bill Bryson
“Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

Criss Jami
“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Michael J. Fox
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”
Michael J Fox

Susan Sontag
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.”
Susan Sontag

J. Sheridan Le Fanu
“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“McDonalds? Never heard of it. We are going to have to find out where it is and take the whole family.”
R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

Umberto Eco
“A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Ellen J. Lewinberg
“Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had left his homework at home. He had done the work, but his teacher didn’t believe him that he had completed it. Joey was still a bit upset with his teacher.

Suddenly, he heard a very soft voice say, “Hello.”

Joey sat up and looked around, but he couldn’t see anyone. So, he laid back down by the stream only to hear the voice again.

The voice sounded bubbly and a little like running water. Joey didn’t know where it was coming from.”
Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

Cassandra Clare
“You ask a lot of questions, don't you?"
"My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.”
Sydney J. Harris

Robert Rauschenberg
“Curiosity is the main energy...”
Robert Rauschenberg

Criss Jami
“All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?”
Criss Jami, Healology

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.”
Lovelle Drachman

“Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.”
Floyd Dell

Cecelia Ahern
“I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by heart. It's like suddenly forgetting the name of someone you know really well and see every day, or the name of a group who sang a famous song. It's something so frustrating that it plays on your mind over and over again because you know there's an answer but no one can tell you it. It niggles and niggles at me and I can't rest until I know the answer.'
'I Understand,' he said softly.”
Cecelia Aherna Ahern, A Place Called Here

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

John Cage
“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
John Cage

Janine Myung Ja
“Don't let authorities claim you're not qualified. If your soul wants to speak truth to power, you will feel curious. Your inner self will urge and pull you forth. That's your spirit talking. That's your human will, walking.”
Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

Judy Blume
“A person without curiosity may as well be dead.”
Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

Rhi Etzweiler
“Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.”
Rhi Etzweiler, Blacker than Black

Misba
“Sometimes, curiosity overpowers the warning of danger. It just does. Especially, when the human brain doesn’t have enough memories to measure the level of danger. Because the brain lacks examples, past references. People call it experience. So, when the reference data is few, the only option is to get more of it. Curiosity is an inexperienced brain’s call to collect reference data. Right now, this very human curiosity burns her brain.”
Misba, The High Auction

Alain de Botton
“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”
Alain de Botton, Art as Therapy

Loren Rhoads
“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.”
Loren Rhoads, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"