CURIOSITY QUOTES IV

quotations about curiosity

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

ALEXANDER POPE

Thoughts on Various Subjects


The curiosity of man must forever find its greatest challenge in the magnificent riddle of the universe.

HEINZ HABER

Stars, Men and Atoms


Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

STEFAN ZWEIG

The Burning Secret and Other Stories


Curiosity is a call from knowledge.

TOBA BETA

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut


Curiosity is a result of cognitive conflict or a gap in knowledge that is elicited by the stimuli or situation. For example, children are most curious when they see an outcome of an event that is inconsistent with their expectations.

DAVID KLAHR, BRYAN MATLEN & JAMIE JIROUT

"Children as Scientific Thinkers,", Handbook of the Psychology of Science


Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

SAUL D. ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals


Inquire not too curiously.

MUHAMMAD

The Quran


Curiosity is one of our more primal appetites. It may at time go out of fashion, but it always commands respect. Timeless as well as artless in its enticement, it has stirred men since mankind's more hirsute, sniffingly inquisitive days. Certainly it is the prerequisite of knowledge, if not that rarer quality of wisdom itself.

KARL A. BRUNSTEIN

Beyond the Four Dimensions


There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

STEPHEN FRY

The Fry Chronicles


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


We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

PLINY THE YOUNGER

Epistles


Curiosity responsible for cat needing nine lives.

CHARLIE CHAN

Charlie Chan at the Circus


Curiosity is the aspect of the universe seeking to realize itself, and the fruit of such activity is new reality, stimulating new research.

CASSIUS JACKSON KEYSER

The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking


Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

"Ode on a Chair Made of Sir Francis Drake's Ship"


Youth's insatiable curiosity is soon squelched and its breadth of view quickly forced into the furrow cut by the plow of convention.

DALE REX COMAN

The Endless Adventure


If curiosities were abundant they would not be curiosities.

W. STUKELEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


He that enlarges his curiosity after the works of nature, demonstrably multiplies the inlets to happiness.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Rambler, April 3, 1750


Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

WENDELL BERRY

attributed, The Miss Dennis School of Writing


Curiosity is scandal's microscope.

P. FLETCHER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

WALT DISNEY

attributed, Meet the Robinsons