Curiosity Quotes
Samuel Johnson leads a short list. His Rambler essay of 1750 calls curiosity one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Edmund Burke, in his Philosophical Enquiry (1757), calls it the first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind. Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer (1771) adds the cheerful corollary: ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs.
The one flagged entry is the prediction that a hundred years after Voltaire’s day there would not be a Bible in the earth, credited to him and marked misattributed. The notes cite books of 1968 and 1972 and say that the Geneva Bible Society later used his press and house to produce Bibles.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.
Plato holds that there is some vice of impiety in enquiring too curiously about God and the world.
The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.