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When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds. (Eric Booth)
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions. (Alain de Botton)
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. (Edmund Burke)
-from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice. "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!" (Lewis Carroll)
-on the Dalai Lama...
He is so childlike in his laughter. In his curiosity. He gets excited about things most of us are too jaded to notice. He is really different. (Victor Chan)
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught. (Winston Churchill)
-on Leonardo da Vinci...
...undoubtedly the most curious man who ever lived. (Kenneth Clark)
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Clarence Day)
Wolves are hunters; they are adaptable with eyes that absorb their landscape. Be like the wolf. Fascinating and alive with curiosity. (Michael Duncan)
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein)
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)
-on Leonardo da Vinci...
He transmuted his passion into inquisitiveness. (Sigmund Freud)
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... Visual tonics such as "timed creativity" need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. (Robert Genn)
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. (Robert Genn)
The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive, and experimental. (John Holt)
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him? (Alexander von Humboldt)
We are no more than God's curiosity about himself. (Thomas Mann)
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties... (Marshall McLuhan)
Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. (Eugene O'Neill)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr)
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. (Alexander Pope)
Kids are curious. Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. (Jim Rohn)
At the birth of a child, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. (Bertrand Russell)
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. (John Singer Sargent)
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens)
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. (Richard Whately)
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