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Quotes About Curiosity

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
~ Winston Churchill
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
~ Paul Merton
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
~ Charles Fort
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.
~ Tom Hiddleston
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
~ Mark Twain
I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.
~ Fernando Perez
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?
~ Bernard Malamud
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
~ Charles Kingsley
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
~ Richard Louv
There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.
~ Richard Louv
I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
~ Susan Cain
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
~ James Clavell
Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
~ Wayne Knight
One can never study nature too much and too hard
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
~ Leroy Chiao
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.
~ Lewis Wolpert
I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.
~ Lupe Fiasco
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
~ Seneca the Younger
I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.
~ Shailene Woodley
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
~ Susan Cain
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
~ Henry David Thoreau