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 12 likes |
 | The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 9 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 9 likes |
 | I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 6 likes |
 | Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 5 likes |
 | I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 3 likes |
 | Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 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 3 likes |
 | First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Be curious, not judgmental. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 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 3 likes |
 | I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes |
 | Curiosity is the lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 1 likes |
 | Children always want to look behind mirrors. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 1 likes |
 | My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 1 likes |
 | Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 1 likes |
 | The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it. — Quentin Crisp, 1908-1999, British writer 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | Curiosity killed the cat. 5 likes |
