Curiosity Quotes and Sayings

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
– Albert Einstein

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

Be curious, not judgmental.
– Walt Whitman

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

Never lose a holy curiosity.
– Albert Einstein

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
– Albert Einstein

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

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds.
– Eric Booth

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. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity.
– Albert Einstein

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
– Albert Einstein

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

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.
– Lovelle Drachman

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
– Ken Robinson

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 bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
– Alexander Pope

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
– Vernon Howard

Ideas come from curiosity.
– Walt Disney

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
– Earl Nightingale

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
– Neil Armstrong

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
– Neil Armstrong

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

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Curiosity is scandal’s microscope.

My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
– Malcolm X

To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.
– Plato

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

If you read someone else’s diary, you get what you deserve.
– David Sedaris

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
– Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

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

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired – looking up something and finding something else on the way.
– Franklin P. Adams