Curiosity Quotes - Page 21

• I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

  Brian Grazer

  People, Notches, Kicks

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• Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flames, Today, Gone

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Jobs, Inspiration, Artist

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• 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

  Creativity, People, Giving

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• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Thinking, Keys

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mad, Looks, Parks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Curves

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• A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Desire

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• I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Three, Inward

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• Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

  Scott Nicholson

  Thinking, Engineering, Data

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• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'

  Bryan Magee

  Philosophy, Real, Writing

  "Confessions of a Philosopher". Book by Bryan Magee, 1997.

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• I have a natural curiosity for people.

  Nicholas Haslam

  People, Natural, Natural Curiosity

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• If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Light, Sparks

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• You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.

  Roger Goodell

  Ambition, Successful, Long

  "Roger Goodell talks crown-of-the-helmet rule, Tim Tebow, more". Interview with Steve Wyche, www.nfl.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

  Moliere

  Desire, Weakness, Doe

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• You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Thinking, Beginners

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• It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Learning, Men, Civilization

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• A blind man. I can stare at him
  ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
  No, he is in a great solitude.
  O, strange joy,
  to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
  No, my thirst is greater than before.

  Denise Levertov

  Men, Joy, Solitude

  Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”

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• I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Class, African American, Borders

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.169, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Curiosity makes loneliness.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness

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• Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

  Mason Cooley

  Lonely, Loneliness, Self

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Missing, Cards

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• ...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tired, Immature, Immaturity

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• Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Enlightenment, Reason

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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