Top 150+ Curiosity Quotes You Must Read

Curiosity Quotes | Curiosity is the fuel that drives innovation. It’s what makes us question what we know and helps us explore the world around us.

And it’s a quality that all of us can cultivate by asking ourselves questions, exploring new ideas, and seeking out new experiences. Here are some inspiring quotes about curiosity that will help you to overcome any obstacle and achieve success.

“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.”

– Anatole France

“Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.”

– John Locke

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.”

– Arnold Edinborough

“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

– Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

– Dorothy Parker

“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”

– Richard Whately

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.”

– Smiley Blanton

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

– Marie Curie

“God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.”

– John Mason Brown

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”

– Edmund Burke

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

– Leo Burnett

“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”

– Clarence Day

“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”

– Albert Einstein

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”

– Edmund Burke

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

– Thomas Hobbes

“It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.”

– Cicero

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

– Victor Hugo

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

– Unknown

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

– Chinese Proverb

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.”

– Martin H. Fischer

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.”

– Vernon Howard

“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

“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”

– Henry L. Doherty

“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age–suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.”

– Mahlon Hoagland

“Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common–inquisitiveness.”

– Edwin Bulwar-Lytton

“Curiosity … endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”

– Alistar Cooke

“Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.”

– Sarah Scott

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”

– William Arthur Ward

“When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds.”

– Eric Booth

“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.”

– Alain De Botton

“Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.”

– Pema Chodron

“I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.”

– Winston Churchill

“The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we’re not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.”

– John Cleese

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

– Alexander Pope

“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”

– Arthur Schopenhauer

“Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.”

– Robert Browning

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

– Albert Einstein

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

– Voltaire

“As long as you’re interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.”

– Joanna Coles

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

– Samuel Johnson

“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.”

– Bryant H. McGill

“When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.”

– Irvin D. Yalom

“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”

– Anatole France

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”

– Richard Whately

“What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.”

– Paolo Coelho

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

– Leo Burnett

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”

– Edmund Burke

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

– E. E. Cummings

“Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.”

– Neil Blumenthal

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

– Zora Neale Hurston

“Curiosity is a mind in search of knowledge.”

– Thibaut

“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”

– Charles Baudelaire

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

– Freya Stark

“What I have is a malevolent curiosity.”

– David Bowie

“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

– Linus Pauling

“Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.”

– Harvey Mackay

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

– Samuel Johnson

“Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.”

– Rose Wilder Lane

“We’re born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don’t have a curiosity don’t have it because it’s gotten beaten out of them in some way.”

– Kip Thorne

“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.”

– William Wirt

“Exploration is curiosity put into action.”

– Don Walsh

“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”

– Ken Robinson

“Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.”

– Billy Cox

“Your curiosity is your growth point always.”

– Danielle LaPorte

“Curiosity is the real teacher.”

– Thibaut

“Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.”

– Gene Cernan

“Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.”

– Steve Pavlina

“What is the intersection between technology, art, and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.”

– Louie Schwartzberg

“You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.”

– Ken Robinson

“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”

– E. M. Forster

“Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.”

– Pema Chödrön

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.”

– Tracy Morgan

“James Cameron quote “Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own”

– Unknown

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”

– James Cameron

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

– Plutarch

“The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.”

– Larry King

“Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.”

– Sarah Scott

“Curiosity is unruly. It doesn’t like rules, or, at least, it assumes that all rules are provisional, subject to the laceration of a smart question nobody has yet thought to ask. It disdains the approved pathways, preferring diversions, unplanned excursions, impulsive left turns. In short, curiosity is deviant.”

– Ian Leslie

“Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.”

– Michael Korda

“Curiosity is life.”

– Mark Parker

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

– Golda Meir

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

– Anatole France

“Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.”

– Philo

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”

– Vladimir Nabokov

“Ignorance is a choice. Curiosity is a cure. It motivates people to educate themselves.”

– Adam Grant

“The hallmark of curiosity is a thirst for knowledge that has no obvious utility. Being a lifelong learner is taking joy in exploration regardless of whether the discovery has immediate relevance. The goal is to understand for the sake of understanding.”

– Adam Grant

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

– Albert Einstein

“Intelligence follows curiosity.”

– James Clear

“Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers.”

– Maxime Lagacé

“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”

– Ken Robinson

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

– Oscar Wilde

“Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.”

– Naval Ravikant

“I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”

– Richard Feynman

“Boredom leads to one of these two things: more boredom or more creativity.”

– Matthew Kobach

“If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life.”

– Erwin Chargaff

“Intellectual curiosity is a superpower.”

– Anthony Pompliano

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead.”

– Susan Sontag

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

– Samuel Johnson

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”

– Vladimir Nabokov

“If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.”

– Danielle LaPorte

“The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.”

– Larry King

“One of the benefits of being curious is that you never get bored, whether alone or with other people.”

– Unknown

“If you’re truly curious, there are an infinite number of things you can try, learn and build.”

– Unknown

“As a kid, I remember taking long walks and bike rides in my neighborhood discovering new streets, faraway fields, and rivers.”

– Unknown

“I also had the chance to have a corn field behind my house where we explored the insects and plants world.”

– Unknown

“There were also small animals like frogs, birds, and raccoons from which we could learn from.”

– Unknown

“Fast forward a few years, I’m still hungry for knowledge, new technologies, and new ideas.”

– Unknown

“Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.”

– Unknown

“This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.”

– Albert Einstein

“The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The hallmark of curiosity is a thirst for knowledge that has no obvious utility. Being a lifelong learner is taking joy in exploration regardless of whether the discovery has immediate relevance. The goal is to understand for the sake of understanding.”

– Adam Grant

“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”

– C.S. Lewis

“Along with intellectual curiosity, we need interpersonal curiosity. Taking an interest in other people is the beginning of empathy.”

– Adam Grant

“Curiosity, curiosity, curiosity, is an imperious tyrant, and it will be obeyed.”

– Unknown

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”

– Albert Einstein

“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

– Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Curiosity is the real teacher.”

– Thibaut

“The best students in school seek to satisfy their teachers. The best students in life seek to satisfy their curiosity.”

– Johnny Uzan

“When education is seen as simply a means to an end, curiosity fades.”

– Unknown

“Curiosity is more important than IQ.”

– Ana Lorena Fabrega

“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”

– Françoise Sagan

“It is very hard to do good work without being optimistic, exceptionally determined, and intellectually curious.”

– Sam Altman

“In modern society, most people have access to the same information. People are distinguished much more by the questions they ask than by the answers they have access to.”

– James Pierce

“The worst decision most adults make is to stop asking questions — trading their curiosity for the appearance of competence.”

– Sven Schnieders

“Curiosity is a mind in search of knowledge.”

– Thibaut

“Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.”

– Pema Chödrön

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

– Socrates

“The knowledge of all things is possible.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”

– Albert Einstein

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

– Walt Disney

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them.”

– Carl Sagan

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

– Plutarch

“There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which makes us desire to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which springs from a desire of knowing what others are ignorant of.”

– François de La Rochefoucauld

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”

– Michel de Montaigne

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

– Blaise Pascal

“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”

– Charles Baudelaire

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

– Richard Feynman

“To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.”

– Plato

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

– Anatole France

“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”

– Anatole France

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.”

– Bernard Baruch

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

– Freya Stark

“Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”

– James Cameron

“Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.”

– Philo

“Exploration is curiosity put into action.”

– Don Walsh

“Read to satisfy your own natural curiosity, not to impress or accomplish.”

– Naval Ravikant

“A fool protects his reputation. The wise man asks questions.”

– Maxime Lagacé

“The more you know, the more you want to know. Not only that, but the more you know, the more connections you can make between the different bits of knowledge that you have in your head and therefore the more ideas you have, which is why curiosity is really the wellspring of creativity.”

– Georgina Venning

“Intellectually curious people — people who are capable of learning throughout their career, of asking questions (good questions), of adapting and collaborating with others from different disciplines; people who are capable of really thriving in this world of non-routine work, in other words — are the people who are going to do better.”

– Georgina Venning

“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.”

– Simon Sinek

“Increasingly, I feel curiosity and an eagerness to learn is the most crucial skill in life. If you’re not curious, I’m not sure if there is much others can do to help you. But if you’re eager to learn, even if you aren’t particularly talented, then so much is possible.”

– James Clear

“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.”

– Alain De Botton

“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”

– Charlie Munger

“You’ll never be exceptional at something unless you think about it all the time.”

– Shane Parrish

“Follow your own curiosity, and start looking internally instead of externally for the answers. Be honest with yourself about the intersection of your skills, your passions, and what the world values.”

– Sam Altman

“A lack of gratitude and a lack of curiosity are two of the most dangerous gaps in life. Fill them in and life changes for the better.”

– Thibaut

“Be ambitious, but more than that, be inquisitive and curious. The day your curiosity dies, you may as well retire.”

– Thibaut

“Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is “hot” right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you’ll get paid extremely well.”

– Tim Ferriss

“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.”

– Criss Jami

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

– Samuel Johnson

“If you open your hand, you may receive everything.”

– Dogen

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

– James Stephens

“Pride is for fools. Humility is for the wise.” –

Maxime Lagacé

“Less certainty. More curiosity.”

– Neil Strauss

“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist.”

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.”

– Criss Jami

“Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.”

– Steve Pavlina

“Curiosity is a muscle — use it or lose it. It’s something that we consciously have to nurture in ourselves, in our families, in classrooms, at work.”

– Georgina Venning

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

– Ellen Parr

“The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear.”

– Arthur Conan Doyle

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it.”

– Alain de Botton

“Curiosity is unruly. It doesn’t like rules, or, at least, it assumes that all rules are provisional, subject to the laceration of a smart question nobody has yet thought to ask. It disdains the approved pathways, preferring diversions, unplanned excursions, impulsive left turns. In short, curiosity is deviant.”

– Ian Leslie

“If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it.”

– Naval Ravikant

“Ignorance is a choice. Curiosity is a cure. It motivates people to educate themselves.”

– Adam Grant

“Curiosity fuels creativity, reduces confirmation bias, and prevents stereotyping. But the more we emphasize efficiency, the less curious people become. To promote a culture of curiosity, make time to ask “What if?” and “How might we?” ”

– Adam Grant

“In school and in life, success depends less on how much we know than on how much we want to learn. The purpose of education is not just to impart knowledge; it’s to instill curiosity. Intrinsic motivation is fueled by mystery, exploration, and meaning.”

– Adam Grant

“I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.”

– Renee Fleming

“As a documentarian, you think, ‘Follow your curiosity.’”

– Ron Howard

“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.”

– Alain De Botton

“Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.”

– Carrie Brownstein

“I’m talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.”

– Valerie Harper

“Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.”

– Carrie Brownstein

“A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.”

– William Shatner

“When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds.”

– Eric Booth

“Intelligence follows curiosity.”

– James Clear

“Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

– Albert Einstein

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it.”

– Alain De Botton

“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.”

– Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.”

– Anne Sweeney

“If you can let go of passion and follow your curiosity, your curiosity just might lead you to your passion.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity an intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”

– Steve Jobs

“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry.”

– Robert G. Ingersoll

“Enjoy every step you take. If you’re curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.”

– Roy T. Bennett

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

– Walt Disney

“Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.”

– Aaron Klug

“Knowledge is the compound interest of curiosity.”

– James Clear

“Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.”

– Opal Tometi

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

– Edith Wharton

“Intellectual curiosity is a superpower.”

– Anthony Pompliano

“Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The more you know, the more you want to know. Not only that, but the more you know, the more connections you can make between the different bits of knowledge that you have in your head and therefore the more ideas you have, which is why curiosity is really the wellspring of creativity.”

– Georgina Venning

“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.”

– Simon Sinek

“Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.”

– Sally Ride

“We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.”

– Lydia Millet

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

– Aldous Huxley

“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.”

– Criss Jami

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”

– William Arthur Ward

“I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.”

– Andie MacDowell

“No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don’t know it all and that they’re dying to learn.”

– Kevin Plank

“I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.”

– Winston Churchill

“Read to satisfy your own natural curiosity, not to impress or accomplish.”

– Naval Ravikant

“Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.”

– Naval Ravikant

“One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.”

– William Lyon Phelps

“I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”

– Richard Feynman

“The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Curiosity is more important than IQ.”

– Ana Lorena Fabrega

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

– Richard Feynman

“Increasingly, I feel curiosity and an eagerness to learn is the most crucial skill in life. If you’re not curious, I’m not sure if there is much others can do to help you. But if you’re eager to learn, even if you aren’t particularly talented, then so much is possible.”

– James Clear

“The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear.”

– Arthur Conan Doyle

“The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”

– Bishop Mandell Creighton

“Your greatest teachers aren’t the ones who know the most. They’re the ones who want to know the most.”

– Adam Grant

“Curiosity is the superpower for the second half of our lives — it keeps us learning, it keeps us asking questions, and it increases our self-awareness.”

– Brené Brown

“Schools are about teaching compliance not fostering curiosity.”

– Shane Parrish

“What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”

– Norton Juster

“You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.”

– Christopher Nolan

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.’

– Martin H. Fischer

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

– Friedrich August von Hayek

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

– Homer Hickam

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.”

– John Burroughs

“A lack of gratitude and a lack of curiosity are two of the most dangerous gaps in life. Fill them in and life changes for the better.”

– Thibaut

“All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.”

– May-Britt Moser

“Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.”

– Petrarch

“It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.”

– Adam Savage

“Along with intellectual curiosity, we need interpersonal curiosity.”

– Adam Grant

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

– Blaise Pascal

“The worst decision most adults make is to stop asking questions — trading their curiosity for the appearance of competence.”

– Sven Schnieders

“Socrates curiosity quote “The unexamined life is not worth living”

– Unknown

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

– Socrates

“The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.”

– Frans de Waal

“Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.”

– Kij Johnson

“Boredom leads to one of these two things: more boredom or more creativity.”

– Matthew Kobach

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.”

– Waris Ahluwalia

“If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.”

– Erno Rubik

“There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which makes us desire to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which springs from a desire of knowing what others are ignorant of.”

– François de La Rochefoucauld

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”

– Michel de Montaigne

“You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity, I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.”

– Nina Garcia

“I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.”

– Guy Kawasaki

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

– Victor Hugo

“Stay human, stay curious and let the entire world know that you are.”

– Micheal Stevens

“There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”

– Enrico Fermi

“Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”

– Alistar Cooke

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”

– Roy T. Bennett

“Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world’s most important discoveries.”

– Gordon Gee

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

– Albert Einstein

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

– Aaron Swartz

“My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.”

– Mario Testino

“I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.”

– Waris Ahluwalia

“To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.”

– Plato

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”

– Mae Jemison

“I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions – that’s behind my curiosity.”

– Paul Allen

“Follow your own curiosity, and start looking internally instead of externally for the answers. Be honest with yourself about the intersection of your skills, your passions, and what the world values.”

– Sam Altman

“One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.”

– William Lyon Phelps

“Be ambitious, but more than that, be inquisitive and curious. The day your curiosity dies, you may as well retire.”

– Thibaut

“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”

– Charlie Munger

“Kids are naturally curious about what they don’t know, or don’t understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.”

– Aimee Mullins

“Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”

– Stephen Hawking

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

– Voltaire

“Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is “hot” right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you’ll get paid extremely well.”

– Tim Ferriss

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

– Samuel Johnson

“Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

– James Stephens

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”

– Enrico Fermi

“They know enough who know how to learn.”

– Henry Adams

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

– John Muir

“Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.”

– Joseph Joubert

“Be very wary of any attempt, by anybody or anything, to limit the ultimate human right and duty to question and verify the truth.”

– Unknown

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

– Plutarch

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

– Richard Feynmann

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

– Oscar Wilde

“Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.”

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”

– Victor Hugo

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

– Ronald Reagan

“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”

– Damien Echols

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”

– Henry James

“It’s daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.”

– Luci Swindoll

“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

– Linus Pauling

Curiosity is a powerful tool that can help us learn more about the world around us. These quotes demonstrate how curiosity has helped people throughout history, and how it can continue to do so in the future.

We should all try to be curious about everything around us, and we can encourage others to do the same by sharing these quotes. Let’s use our curiosity to explore the world around us and learn as much as we can!

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