Curiosity is something innate in people, it is a way to acquire new knowledge to have a fuller and happier life. However, it is not easy to understand what that force or motivation consists of that makes us want to explore, to know more things about the world and about ourselves.
In this article you will find a selection of the best phrases about curiosity commented.
The most memorable and inspiring curiosity phrases
These quotes and reflections on human curiosity invite us to think about everything that makes us want to continue learning and exploring about the world.
1. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein)
Curiosity always remains latent even in situations where the environment does not encourage its development.
2. Curiosity is in search of news. (Spanish saying)
Anyone who includes curiosity in their life always finds some interesting idea.
3. We will not stop exploring, and at the end of our search we will arrive where we started and we will get to know the place for the first time. (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
Many times, curiosity leads us to see from another perspective what we already thought we knew well.
4. Humor and curiosity are the purest form of intelligence. (Roberto Bolaño)
Being curious boosts our ability to push our intelligence to its fullest potential.
5. Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first and last passion. (Samuel Johnson)
It is always important to have an open mind.
6. Boredom is cured with curiosity. Curiosity will not heal anything. (Dorothy Parker)
Curiosity is something innate in people.
7. I prefer my mind to open out of curiosity than to close out of conviction. (Gerry Spence)
It is important to give way to research and study.
8. Curiosity is the very basis of education, and if they tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I only say that the cat died nobly. (Arnold Edinborough)
Curiosity is the basis of learning.
9. Intellectual curiosity is the denial of all dogmas and the driving force of free examination. (José Ingenieros)
It refers to the importance of curiosity.
10. Teaching someone who does not want to learn is like sowing a field without plowing it. (Richard Dehmel)
Learning is not imposed, it is only desired.
11. An individual’s intelligence is measured by the amount of uncertainties he or she is able to withstand. (Immanuel Kant)
Intelligence is associated with curiosity.
12. Curiosity killed the cat. (Spanish saying)
For some, being curious can have negative consequences.
13. Curiosity: Human impulse that oscillates between the rude and the sublime. It leads to listening behind doors or to discovering America. (José María Eça de Queirós)
Curiosity has many aspects.
14. Old age is the loss of curiosity. (Azorin)
As we get older, curiosity takes a backseat.
15. I think that if we lose curiosity there is nothing; there is no reflection and, therefore, there is no knowledge and there is no possibility of knowing. (Luis Eduardo Aute)
Without the sense of curiosity, knowledge is scarce.
16. The whole art of teaching is the only art of arousing the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it later. (Anatole France)
The implementation of curiosity in young people is something that is beneficial for them.
17. I have no special talents, but I am deeply curious. (Albert Einstein)
Great geniuses are the product of curiosity.
18. The youth of a being is not measured by how many years it is, but by the curiosity it stores. (Salvador Paniker)
A person is young as his knowledge increases.
19. Curiosity dares most against what is most prohibited. (Diego de Saavedra Fajardo)
When something is prohibited, the greater the curiosity it has.
20. Curiosity in language is a danger of vanity. (Ramón Menéndez Pidal)
It refers to the negative of curiosity.
21. Love is nothing more than a curiosity. (Giovanni Giacomo Casanova)
Curiosity is also related to love.
22. Someone intelligent learns from the experience of others. (Voltaire)
Other people have something to teach us.
23. Curiosity itself can be vivid and healthy only in proportion, as the mind is content and happy. (Anatole France)
Knowledge grants a life full of happiness.
24. Without curiosity, you are not alive at all. (Luis Eduardo Aute)
Curiosity gives life.
25. One of the main diseases of man is his restless curiosity to know what he cannot know. (Blaise Pascal)
There is knowledge that we cannot have.
26. What would life be if we didn’t have the courage to try something new? (Vincent van Gogh)
Life would be completely boring if we didn’t try something new every day.
27. Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Having knowledge can be seen as an act of rebellion.
28. The great reason why children give themselves up completely to silly activities and vapidly time-consuming activities is because they find their curiosity hampered and their questions neglected. (John Locke)
Children need to know how to express their curiosity.
29. There is no satiety in studying. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
We are always in search of new learning.
30. The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the coastline of wonder and curiosity. (Ralph Washington Sockman)
As we gain knowledge, curiosity increases.
31. The saddest people in the world are those who, faced with ignorance, choose hate and not curiosity. (Daniel Arzola)
If you want to get rid of ignorance, just practice curiosity.
32. Men love to marvel. This is the seed of the science. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Astonishment is typical of men.
33. Scratching where it doesn’t itch means allowing yourself to be seduced by new interests in addition to those you already have, maintaining a constant spirit of search among the unknown and allowing curiosity to guide your learning. (Pere Estupinya)
The search for new ideas is something that causes a lot of interest.
34. Thought is the steed, reason is the rider. (Aurore Dupin)
Everything you learn must go hand in hand with good judgment.
35. Our crime is to be men and want to know. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
We are human beings and we want to learn something more every day.
36. How many things we are about to discover if cowardice and carelessness did not hinder our curiosity! (Mary Shelley)
Fear and laziness are mortal enemies of learning.
37. Curiosity always ends up prevailing over reason, especially when guilt disrupts your plans. (Lorena Franco)
Sometimes curiosity is stronger than reason.
38. A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. (Smiley Blanton)
Man is curious by nature.
39. The public has an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. (Oscar Wilde)
On many occasions, we are focused on learning what is appropriate.
40. I write to people everywhere young enough to be curious about the world. (Ryszard Kapuściński)
Youth has the ability of curiosity.
41. I didn’t mean to fool anyone, think now. Just live other lives. Her curiosity was – is – too great to limit it to a single existence. (Sara Meza)
We are always curious about other people’s lives.
42. Curiosity is the gasoline that lights the spark of creativity… innovation… and entrepreneurship. (Antonio Paez Pinzon)
To innovate and undertake, curiosity has to be present.
43. Only intelligence examines itself. (Jaime Balmes)
When a person is intelligent, he is capable of self-examination.
44. The curiosity to know things has been given to men as a punishment. (Michel de Montaigne)
There are people for whom knowledge is somewhat undesirable.
45. Just out of curiosity and for the well-being of my mortal self, is there anyone at this party you haven’t slept with?
Curiosity often results in a disrespectful practice.
46. Curiosity is one of the most permanent and sure characteristics of a vigorous intelligence. (Samuel Johnson)
If you want to be smart, then be curious at all times.
47. Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. (Marie Curie)
Don’t focus on people, but on knowledge.
48. It is not my fault that this is how we are constituted: half disinterested contemplation and half appetite. (Czeslaw Milosz)
Every person has a curious side and another apathetic side.
49. Luckily, nature has given me an irrational curiosity even for the smallest things. That saves me. (Pedro Almodovar)
To do certain things, you have to possess some irrationality.
50. Curious people are never bored, and their life is an eternal study in joy. (Tony Robbins)
If you want to be happy and joyful, curiosity is the secret.
51. Curiosity is not inclined so much to what is good and beautiful, as to what is rare, unique. (La Bruyere)
Curiosity about the unusual is something very attractive.
52. Less capable intelligences are interested in the extraordinary; powerful intelligences, in ordinary things. (Victor Hugo)
Seek to know only what is essential and simple.
53. The first and simplest emotion that we discover in the human mind is curiosity. (Edmund Burke)
From the moment we are born, curiosity belongs to us.
54. Without curiosity we are just existing beings, without reason and motive in it. (Jose A. Pallavicini)
Life without a little curiosity is meaningless.
55. Curiosity defeats fear more easily than courage. (James Stephens)
Fear can only be overcome with knowledge.
56. Curiosity is the lust of the mind. (Thomas Hobbes)
For some people, curiosity becomes a disease.
57. The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, always increases with its acquisition. (Laurence Sterne)
As we acquire knowledge, we always want more.
58. Curiosity is the only thing that keeps me afloat. Everything else sinks me. (Pedro Almodovar)
For a curious person, activities become easier.
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59. Curiosity must be kept alive. One should never, for any reason, turn one’s back on life. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Never lose curiosity.
60. Walk towards the future, opening new doors and trying new things, be curious… because our curiosity always leads us down new paths. (Walt Disney)
Curiosity is the door to the future.
61. Curiosity is the daughter of ignorance and the mother of science. (Vico)
Through ignorance we reach knowledge.
62. While the foolish decide, the intelligent deliberate. (Plutarch)
Curious people only reflect.
63. The curiosity of children is an inclination, which goes before instruction; It is therefore necessary to take advantage of it. (Fénelon)
Children are curious at all times.
64. I am not afraid of death, what I do have respect for is the trance, going there. I confess that I am curious to know what it is about. (Atahualpa Yupanqui)
Death is a topic that generates great curiosity.
65. Natural curiosity is more effective in learning than fearful coercion. (San Agustin)
True knowledge is only achieved through exploration.
66. Curiosity is a voluntary, proud and anxious confession of ignorance. (S. Leonard Rubinstein)
For certain people, curiosity is a form of ignorance.
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67. First love is a little madness and a great curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)
In matters of love, curiosity is the faithful friend.
68. To remain young we have to be permanently in a state of intellectual curiosity. (Salvador Paniker)
Curiosity and knowledge keep the mind jovial.
69. The lack of curiosity or lack of appetite for foreign cultures is, in my opinion, an index of decadence and passivity. (Juan Gotysolo)
It is essential to know the culture of other countries.
70. Ideas come from curiosity. (Walt Disney)
Knowledge emerges from curiosity.
71. Time is the only capital of people who fortunately have nothing more than their intelligence. (Honoré de Balzac)
Time is wise and comes at the right time.
72. You are curious, what are you looking for in those books? (Morgan Freeman)
Books are open doors to carry out curiosity.
73. The need to know and understand is seen in early and second childhood, perhaps even more strongly than in adulthood. (Abraham Maslow)
Generally, children and adolescents are the ones who are most curious.
74. If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. (Holly Black)
Curiosity does not kill, but rather teaches.
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75. There are four things that would have happened better to me without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubts. (Dorothy Parker)
It refers to the importance of curiosity.
76. Excellence as a leader has been achieved when people follow you everywhere, even if only out of curiosity. (Colin Powell)
People are just curious all the time.
77. Children do not need to be taught to be curious. (Abraham Maslow)
Children are curious from birth.
78. Fools open the paths that wise men later travel. (Carlo Dossi)
Intelligent people bide their time.
79. It is important to teach how to study on your own, to search on your own, to be amazed. (Mario Bunge)
Teaching is essential to activate curiosity.
80. Constant happiness is curiosity. (Alice Munro)
Curiosity leads to knowledge and this to happiness.
81. Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence simply boils down to curiosity. (Aaron Swartz)
Searching for new things and reading daily are opportunities to put curiosity into practice.
82. It is simply this: do not get tired, never lose interest, never become indifferent, lose your priceless curiosity and let yourself die. It’s as simple as that. (Tove Jansson)
Look at all times for the opportunity to acquire knowledge.
83. What really helps is having a great capacity for observation and curiosity about people and situations. (Jose Carlos Somoza)
Observation is also a way to put curiosity into practice.
84. I think that if at the birth of a child a mother could ask the fairy godmother to provide her with the best gift, it would be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Curiosity leads to knowledge.
85. It is not that genius is a century ahead of his time, it is humanity that is a hundred years behind him. (Robert Musil)
A genius is one who has known how to take advantage of his curiosity.
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86. The curious person always has new questions that move him to the oasis of knowledge. (Antonio Paez Pinzon)
A curious person will always be an intelligent individual.
87. We only truly age, on the inside, when we stop loving and being curious. (Elsa Punset)
The day you no longer have the desire to investigate something, old age knocks on your door.
88. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. (Ken Robinson)
To achieve something you have to have knowledge.
89. Ignorance can be bliss, but only if it overcomes curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. (Victoria Schwab)
There are those who prefer to live in a deception than to seek the truth.
90. There’s always a place where I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That is my challenge as an educator. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
