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.
We democratic teachers engage with the world by cultivating curiosity.
Ah well, these little mysteries, morbid curiosities, war is full of them. - Dr Ahmet Talzani
My motto when I was writing this was ‘replace judgment with curiosity’.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Never underestimate the power of curiosity. It is the foundation of all great discoveries.
The essential elements ... of the romantic spirit are curiosity and the love of beauty.
Curiosity, restlessness, an obsession with problem-solving and a good dash of stubbornness.