(191 quotes found)
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
William Arthur Ward
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
Samuel Johnson
“Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
Dorothy Parker
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last”
“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.”
Oscar Wilde
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.”
Plato
“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity”
Edmund Burke
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it sure has earned a lot of people graduate degrees”
Robyn Irving
“Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.”
John Dewey
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