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Quotes About Curiosity

It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.
~ Sofia Coppola
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
~ Iris Apfel
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
~ Luis Bunuel
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Imagination grows by exercise.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
~ Adrien Brody
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.
~ Walt Disney
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.
~ John Stewart Bell
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ's hands.
~ Charlotte Mason
Imagination is more valuable than information.
~ Albert Einstein
Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
~ George William Curtis
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Curiosity is the main energy.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
~ e. e. cummings
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
~ Jasper Johns
Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.
~ Albert Einstein
It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
~ David Mitchell
Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.
~ Salman Rushdie
It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.
~ William C. McCool
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
~ William Butler Yeats
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
~ Lloyd Alexander