Quotes About Curiosity

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

Why would people spend good money to have my pants?

Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem.

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

Ideas come from curiosity.

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

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.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.