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Quotes About Curiosity

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
~ Rumi
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
~ Ella Maillart
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
~ Mary Oliver
If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.
~ Eva Mendes
Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young
~ Fredric March
Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.
~ Rolf Potts
Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
~ Anthony de Mello
The act of seeking is essential to life.
~ Mark Fraley
Life is full of wonder.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
mysterious like the moon, she would delight you in her glow, her light alone can make you question yourself.. & who was she? She will never let you know.
~ Nikki Rowe
A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.
~ Sangita Pareek
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.
~ Roddy Piper
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
~ Red Barber
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
~ Roger Bannister
It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.
~ Mats Sundin
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
~ Shelby Metcalf
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
~ Bob Lemon
I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.
~ Tug McGraw
Our whole lives are a struggle with mysteries. Mysteries endanger us, support us, destroy us. Our great scientists have cleared away these mysteries in some directions by deepening them in others.
~ Alasdair Gray
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.
~ Alastair Reynolds