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Quotes on Curiosity

I have no special talents, I'm only passionately curious. ~Albert Einsten

 

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ~Voltaire

 

A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. ~Smiley Blanton

 

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
~S. Leonard Rubinstein

 

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

 

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. ~Albert Einstein

 

Curious minds wonder alike. ~ Unknown

 

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out. ~B.F. Skinner

 

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman

 

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. ~Plato

 

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ~Eugene S. Wilson

 

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.  ~Albert Einstein

 

There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it. ~ William H. Sheldon

 

Be curious, not judgemental. ~ Walt Whitman

 

 

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. ~Julius Sumner Miller

 

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. ~Leo Burnett

 

The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker

 

Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity. ~Unknown

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