Inspirations

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.

- Ethel Barrymore

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

- Edmund Burke

Curiosity, endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life, which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

- Alistair Cooke

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

- Clarence Day

Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein

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

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

- Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

- Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

- Samuel Johnson

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

- Desmond Morris

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

- Grace Paley

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

- William Lyon Phelps

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

- Alexander Pope

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

- Yiddish Proverb

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

- Carl Edward Sagan

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

- Jeremy Taylor

I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself, it's eerie.

- Christy Turlington

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives

- Source Unknown

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

- Richard Whately

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

- Gilbert K Chesterton

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

- John Holt

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

- James Russell Lowell

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