110 Quotes About Curiosity

John Akinrinade
Mar 10, 2023 By John Akinrinade
Originally Published on Feb 27, 2023
Edited by Anupama Ghosh
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Quote About Curiosity by Samuel Johnson

The importance of curiosity in young minds is evident in geniuses.

Curiosity forms the bedrock for the acquisition of new knowledge. It is key to innovation, invention, and adventurous learning.

The ability to constructively question the status quo often sets geniuses apart from the crowd. Although the proverb of curiosity says, "curiosity killed the cat", Einstein contends that "curiosity has its own reason for existing." Therefore, these quotes about curiosity will help develop the ability of willing readers.

Famous Quotes About Curiosity

These curiosity quotes are often used because of their simplicity and coherence.

"Science is fun. Science is curiosity." - Sally Ride.

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last." - Samuel Johnson.

"I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught." - Winston Churchill.

"A lack of gratitude and a lack of curiosity are two of the most dangerous gaps in life." - Thibaut.

"Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief." — Steve Pavlina.

"As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward." - Joanna Coles.

"Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein.

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." - ' The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose', Oscar Wilde.

"Less certainty. More curiosity." - Neil Strauss.

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie

"The day your curiosity dies, you may as well retire." - Thibaut.

"Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. - Sally Ride.

"Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries." - Anne Sweeney.

"The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity." - Larry King

"What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew." - David Bowie.

"Ignorance is a choice. Curiosity is a cure." - Adam Grant.

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." - Samuel Johnson.

"Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities." - Roy Bennett

"Curiosity is a mind in search of knowledge." - Thibaut.

"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously and is confident enough to admit when it does not know." - Alain de-Botton.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. - Ralph Emerson.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” – Bryant McGill

"Curiosity is essential for progress." - Simon Sinek.

"Increasingly, I feel curiosity and an eagerness to learn is the most crucial skill in life." - James Clear.

"Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity." - Amala Akkineni.

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory." - Richard Whately.

"Curiosity is the engine of achievement." - Ken Robinson.

"If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you’ll get paid extremely well." - Tim Ferriss.

"Curiosity is a muscle - use it or lose it." - Georgina Venning.

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive." - Eleanor Roosevelt.

Funny Quotes About Curiosity

These curiosity quotes are as funny as their educative values.

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." - Steven Wright

"My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure." - Kevin Mitnick.

"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 should be curiosity." - Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." - Vladimir Nabokov.

"Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now." - Naval Ravikant.

"If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle." - Danielle LaPorte

"Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead." - Susan Sontag.

"...if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." - Arnold Edinborough.

"Curiosity is more important than IQ." - Ana Fabrega.

"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness." - C.S. Lewis.

"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist." - Nassim Taleb

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind." - Thomas Hobbes.

"Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein.

"To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd." - Plato.

"Knowledge is the compound interest of curiosity." - James Clear.

"The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." - Oscar Wilde.

Inspirational Quotes About Curiosity

These curiosity quotes will instigate self-reflection in the readers' minds and motivate them to act.

"We all have natural curiosity." - Sally Ride.

"Follow your own curiosity, and start looking internally instead of externally for the answers." - Sam Altman.

"Curiosity is the essence of human existence." - Gene Cernan.

"Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own." - James Cameron.

"Success is the by-product of learning, which is the by-product of curiosity" - Naval Ravikant.

"The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear." - Arthur Doyle.

"Let your curiosity lead you down a road that is less traveled." - ATGW.

"Curiosity is the best motive for writing" - Michael Korda.

"My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity." - Mario Testino.

"Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity." - Billy Cox.

"Curiosity about life in all aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." - Leo Burnett.

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity" - E. E. Cummings.

"Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom." - Françoise Sagan.

"I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited." - Anne Sweeney.

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." - Linus Pauling.

"The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle." - Leo Rosten

"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism." - Bernard Beckett.

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." - William Phelps.

"Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline." - Augustine of Hippo.

"Intelligence follows curiosity." - James Clear.

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race." - E. M. Forster.

"Let your curiosity be greater than your fear." - Pema Chödrön.

"The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds." - Robin Sharma.

"The worst decision most adults make is to stop asking questions - trading their curiosity for the appearance of competence." - Sven Schnieders.

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

"The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity." - Anatole France.

"Replace judgment with curiosity." – Lynn Nottage

"Curiosity fuels creativity, reduces confirmation bias, and prevents stereotyping." - Adam Grant.

"Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers." — Maxime Lagacé.

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney.

"Curiosity, the rover, and the concept is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown." - Ahmed Zewail.

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature." - Freya Stark.

"Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day." - Charlie Munger.

"Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope." - Carrie Brownstein

"It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity." - Adam Savage

"Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living." - Albert Einstein.

"Knowledge gained through curiosity is way different than knowledge gained through obligation." - Thibaut.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Ellen Parr.

"I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift." - Andie MacDowell.

"If you’re not curious, I’m not sure if there is much others can do to help you." - James Clear.

"Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained." - Philo.

"Along with intellectual curiosity, we need interpersonal curiosity." - Adam Grant.

"Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation." - Ifeanyi Onuoha.

"Mere curiosity adds wings to every step." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

"If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it." — Naval Ravikant.

"Knowledge is cheap, curiosity is priceless." - Thibaut.

"When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds." - Eric Booth.

Quotes About Children's Curiosity

These curiosity quotes are about children's need for curiosity.

"It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity." - May-Britt Moser.

"All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious." - May-Britt Moser.

"Do not stand in the way of a child's curiosity. It is her greatest asset." - Thibaut

"Intellectual curiosity is a superpower." – Anthony Pompliano.

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." - Anatole France.

"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts." - William Wirt.

"Schools are about teaching compliance not fostering curiosity." - Shane Parrish.

"The best students in school seek to satisfy their teachers. The best students in life seek to satisfy their curiosity." - Johnny Uzan.

"Read to satisfy your own natural curiosity" - Naval Ravikant.

"Curiosity is the very basis of education." - Arnold Edinborough

"Source Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." - James Stephens.

"You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity." - Christopher Nolan.

"Curiosity is the real teacher." - Thibaut.

"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity." - Aaron Swartz.

"Be ambitious, but more than that, be inquisitive and curious." - Thibaut.

"Genuine learning is impossible without curiosity." - Naval Ravikant.

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." – Albert Einstein

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Written by John Akinrinade

Bachelor of Science specializing in Public Administration

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John AkinrinadeBachelor of Science specializing in Public Administration

John is a highly qualified professional, holding a degree in Public Administration and a Diploma in Local Government Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. With a diverse background in finance and writing, John has been producing high-quality copy as a content producer and copywriter for several years, both in the UK and Nigeria. John's unique combination of financial expertise and writing prowess allows him to produce compelling, well-researched content that is both informative and engaging. 

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