Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity Quotes
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). “Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so […]
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
