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Quotes About Curiosity

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
~ Alexander Grothendieck
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.
~ Lauren Fleshman
You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
~ Bill Murray
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
~ James Stockdale
As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My only fear is the unknown.
~ David Blaine
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
~ Pema Chodron
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
~ Julius Caesar
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
~ Haruki Murakami
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
~ Ann Druyan
If you don't fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you
~ Paulo Coelho
Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.
~ Scott Carpenter
Fear is for people who don't get out very much.
~ Rick Steves
I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.
~ Luisa Valenzuela
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
~ Bernard Malamud
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
~ Robert Fulghum
We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
~ Unknown
IGNORANCE is being SILENT when you cannot find an ANSWER and a REASON to ASK.
~ Unknown
Existence is not enough; curiosity and knowledge is more important.
~ Unknown
It's better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
~ Unknown
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life.
~ Ritu Ghatourey