Quotes about Curiosity

Live free, child of the mist—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist.

Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.