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 needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.
The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.
For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.
The delight and joy of curiosity and learning can temper our fear of doing something completely new.
The curiosity of Man, and the cunning of his reason, have revealed much of what Nature held hidden.