(215 quotes found)
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Albert Einstein
“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
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Lewis Carroll
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
E. E. Cummings
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
Samuel Johnson
“It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
“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
