Thursday, September 24, 2009

Curiosity Quotes - Curious Quotes

Curiosity Quotes - Curious Quotes

Curiosity Quotes - Curious Quotes

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else,
do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to
stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
--Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power
to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the
bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height
in the divine knowledge.
--Michel de Montaigne

A man should go on living if only to satisfy his curiosity
--Jewish Proverb

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
--Albert Einstein

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

I think most people are curious about what it would be
like to be able to meet yourself - it's eerie.
--Christy Turlington

Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it
--Sudie Back

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers.
But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness
is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine
in every other man.
--John Ruskin

All explorers are seeking something they have lost.
It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that
the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
--Arthur C. Clarke

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain
characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
--Samuel Johnson

I loathe that low vice curiosity.
--Lord Byron

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
--Samuel Johnson

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Ellen Parr

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.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts
far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
--Clarence Day

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
--James Stephens


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