best quotations about
Curiosity |
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Quotations
 | The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 11 likes |
 | The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 8 likes |
 | Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 8 likes |
 | I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 6 likes |
 | Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 5 likes |
 | Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 2 likes |
| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
| Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Be curious, not judgmental. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 2 likes |
 | 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. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes |
 | I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Curiosity is the lust of the mind. |
 | Children always want to look behind mirrors. |
 | Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. |
 | Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart. |
 | My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once. |
 | Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. |
 | Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Curiosity killed the cat. 4 likes |
