(215 quotes found)
“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You know what a woman's curiosity is”
Oscar Wilde
“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.”
William Wirt
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
William Arthur Ward
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
Anatole France
“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.”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Aldous Huxley
“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.”
Ambrose Bierce
