Curiosity Quotes - Page 34

• Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

  Satya Nadella

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO". news.microsoft.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Nerves, Rebellious, Ends

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.

  John Fowles

  Strong, Morning, Wind

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

  Azar Nafisi

  Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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• Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Character, Empathy

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• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, America, Insulting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.55, BoD – Books on Demand

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• God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Teaching, Thinking, Ideas

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• How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

  George Grosz

  Artist, Joy, Research

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• All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

  Geoff Dyer

  Ignorance, Journey, All The Best

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• The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

  Jim Elliot

  Men, Hands, Christ

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• Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

  Mark Parker

  Looks, Assumption, Sponges

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• An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

  Marie Stopes

  Body, Structure, Gloating

  Married Love ch. 5 (1918)

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• Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

  William Godwin

  Book, Way, Lovers

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.29

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• Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

  Seth Godin

  Firsts, Facts, Want

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• So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

  Steve Rubel

  Business, Important, Tools

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• It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.

  Tom Peters

  Education, Work, Mind

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• Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

  Saint Augustine

  Discipline, Harsh, Values

  "Confessions".

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• 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

  Brainstorming, Propulsion, Jet

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• Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Encouragement, Creativity, Self

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Degrees, Problem

  Dedication of his English translation of Fr. J. Lobo's 'Voyage to Abyssinia' (1735), signed 'the editor' but attributed to Johnson in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 89 (1734)

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• Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of paintings is now illuminated; those who have seen the ring beset with gems of light are sufficiently disposed to spread their reputation; the purpose of this notice is merely to say that the Museum will be illuminated every evening until the public curiosity be gratified.

  Rembrandt Peale

  Science, Museums, Light

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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mother, Silly, Exercise

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• Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

  Charles Lyell

  Change, Science, Causes

  Sir Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation”, p.305

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• Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.

  Otto Robert Frisch

  Children, Science, Childhood

  Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Long, Demand, Surface

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.5

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