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 | "Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of
ignorance." | |
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S. Leonard Rubinstein
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| "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a
vigorous mind." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning." | |
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William Arthur Ward
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| "CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The
desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of
the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice." | |
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Lewis Carroll
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| "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." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search
for is excellent." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Nothing is interesting if you"re not interested." | |
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Helen Clark MacInness
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| "Satisfaction of one"s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of
happiness in life." | |
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Linus Pauling
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| "Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young
minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." | |
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Anatole France
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| "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reasons 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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except
what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having
tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things,
because we"re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new
paths." | |
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Walter Elias Disney
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| "What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions
and courting new impressions." | |
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Walter Pater
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