Quotes tagged ‘Curiosity’

“They say I am there to do light housework. Though mostly I am there to be an object of curiosity.”

— Margaret Atwood, Sarah Polley, Grace Marks, Sarah Gadon, imdb.com

“We learn better in a free spirit of curiosity than under fear and compulsion.”

— Augustine of Hippo, amazon.com

“Go with purpose. Triggers people's curiosity.”

— Natasha Lyonne, Lizzy, Rebecca Henderson, imdb.com

“Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it.”

— Walter Isaacson, tim.blog

“Social media makes everyone’s life look better than yours.”

— Sex Diaries, thecut.com

“His untimely death birthed me into the realization that life is fragile and every moment is an invitation to be alive. It led to my profound curiosity around what it means to live each day fully, which sent me on a path of asking—and seeking to answer—a central question: How do we express the fullne…”

— Amber Rae, amazon.com

“A person without curiosity may as well be dead.”

— Judy Blume, amazon.com

“I'm always interested in learning something new.”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“Curiosity often leads to trouble.”

— Winston Hibler, Alice (voice), Kathryn Beaumont, imdb.com

“I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books… these books are my paddles.”

— Justin Doble, Dustin Henderson, Gaten Matarazzo, imdb.com

“Sometimes...when you're a kid...you lie awake at night and ponder the kinds of questions that grownups have long since stopped asking. Questions like—What did it feel like to be dead? Are time and space really infinite? What was there before the universe began? Why are there people like Wayne?”

— Matthew Carlson, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com

“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking, amazon.com

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past – some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“I consider one of my few virtues—I don’t have a lot of them—but one of them would be a deep sense of curiosity. It’s inconceivable why anyone would want to not experience as many colors in the spectrum as possible with our limited time on Earth.”

— Anthony Bourdain, motherjones.com

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

— Steven Wright, en.wikiquote.org

“We don't even bother being curious anymore because somewhere, someone on "our side" has a position. In a fitting-in culture--at home, at work, or in our larger community--curiosity is seen as a weakness and asking questions equates to antagonism rather than being valued as learning.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“In school, curiosity is hardly ever taught or nurtured, breeding legions of students who’ve lost all love of learning.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Science Literacy is not only about what you know, it's about your depth of curiosity, and your capacity to evaluate evidence.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Scientists are simply adults who retained and nurtured their native curiosity from childhood.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“The only thing I’m concerned with now is being in my seventies and being able to be proficient. I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work. I’m hoping that people will come along and see me just because, or maybe more than because I’m a curiosity. I know that is part of it,…”

— Eric Clapton, consequenceofsound.net