(191 quotes found)
“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
Nancy Willard
“Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Lewis Carroll
“It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
Walt Disney
“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy”
Anatole France
“Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.”
Voltaire
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”
Eugene O'Neill
“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”