Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

I looked at them with the kind of curiosity one reserves for snakes in a zoo.

When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn’t satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going – till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There’s a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it’s a forbidding looking place.

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

I thought, I’m just going to give as much attention and curiosity to acting as I did to like making my coffee in the morning and see how that feels, rather than resisting it and angsting, and it turned out it felt great.

I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don’t understand why people want to interview me.

Wherever My Curiosity Takes Me, I Follow. If I Fucking Hate It, I’m On To The Next Thing. A Lot Of People Don’t Move Like That And It Just Boggles My Mind. It’s Like A Math Problem I Can’t Comprehend

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing ‘This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it’, than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.

I had to learn – since I’m divorced now and everyone is like, ‘Oh my God, you’re single, what’s going on?’ – that if I don’t like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I’m getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.

His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

His sense of service, intellectual curiosity and capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation – were all irrepressible. That mischievous, enquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him.

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

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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.

If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

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

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

I’m suppose to be #1 on everybody list. We’ll see what happens when I no longer exist.

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

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

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.

Do not be afraid to ask for help.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.