Quotes about Curiosity

She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

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.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

Never memorize something that you can look up.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.