Apr 30 2008
22 Great Quotes On Curiosity
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A life without curiosity is quite simply a boring life. It’s the power of the curious mind that has made humans as advanced and as imaginative as we find ourselves today. Perhaps the following quotes can spark your own curiosity 
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
S. Leonard Rubinstein
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was: curiosity.
Jim Morrison
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Dr. Linus Pauling
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart
If you really want to succeed, you’ll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn’t for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.
Donald Trump
Only the curious have something to find.
unknown
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
People die when curiosity goes.
Graham Swift
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Plato
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
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I’d like to add a quote from Brian Swimme (Physicist), which I’ve got in the first of a five part series on Creative Intelligence which is kicking off on Monday:
“If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.”
The quote gets at how intrinsic creativity is to life in general, whether human or otherwise. Its part and parcel of the point that ‘flow’ comes out of living in the moment, nurtures creativity (curiousity) and is of itself inherently fulfilling. Its the way we’ve been since archaeologists begin dating humanity about seventy-seven thousand years ago, when in caves high above the Indian Ocean man first began making artifacts. It is our very nature to create, to make artifacts.
Please stop by and read the article, and if you please, leave a comment as well.
Cory
Curiosity has been responsible for most of the personal growth in my life. Sometimes it’s driven me crazy and almost killed me, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. =)
Jonathan
http://jonathanmead.com - Authenticity, Clarity, Balance
LOL….curiosity almost killed you?! well I guess it was worth it in the end
for every cat that curiosity has killed an intellectual has thrived from it…..Cat, the other brain food….:)
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