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Quotes About Curiosity

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
~ Thomas Jefferson
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.
~ Hedy Lamarr
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
~ Grace Hartigan
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
~ Niels Bohr
I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.
~ Zachary Levi
I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.
~ Gelett Burgess
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
~ Augustus William Hare
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
~ Nikola Tesla
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~ Blaise Pascal
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'
~ Stevie Nicks
Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda
~ Stephenie Meyer
It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.
~ William Kent Krueger
I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.
~ Robin Ince
We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.
~ Stephen Hawking
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
~ Dorothea Brande
When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.
~ Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
~ M. H. Abrams
Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
~ George Jonas
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.
~ Champfleury