Quotes About Curiosity

You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.

Ah! I have talked quite enough for today, said Lord Henry, smiling. All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. 

The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.  More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? CECILY: Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

I ask merely for information.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.  Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.

You always want to know what one has been doing. I always want to forget what I have been doing.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by him. His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him. There was something in his low languid voice that was absolutely fascinating. His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid.

As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of them and listen to men and women whispering through the worn grating the true story of their lives.

In my time, of course, we were taught not to understand anything. That was the old system, and wonderfully interesting it was. I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand was quite extraordinary.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say.