Curiosity Quotes

‘We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.’ – Walt Disney

‘The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.’ – Gza

‘Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.’ – Sally Ride

‘Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.’ – Anatole France

‘Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.’ – Steven Wright

‘Curiosity is the lust of the mind.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.’ – James Stephens

‘Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.’ – Amala Akkineni

‘Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.’ – e. e. cummings

‘As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.’ – E. M. Forster

‘The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.’ – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

‘Maybe I’m just like a child. I’m full of curiosity about things, and it’s fine as long as it’s fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough.’ – Akira Toriyama

‘Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.’ – Bernard Beckett

‘Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.’ – Linus Pauling

‘Replace judgment with curiosity.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.’ – Tu Youyou

‘First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.’ – Marie Curie

‘The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.’ – Abraham Cowley

‘Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.’ – Spike Jonze

‘An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.’ – David Attenborough

‘Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.’ – Iris Apfel

‘Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.’ – Graham Greene

‘Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.’ – Leo Burnett

‘Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.’ – Daniel Boone

‘If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.’ – John Singer Sargent

‘To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others’ stories.’ – Sarah Kay

‘I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.’ – Abraham Verghese

‘Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.’ – Richard Whately

‘I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.’ – Allan Hamilton

‘The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.’ – Gene Cernan

‘What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.’ – David Bowie

‘It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference.’ – Michael Dell

‘Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.’ – Heinrich Rohrer

‘Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Curiosity – the rover and the concept – is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.’ – Baruj Benacerraf

‘Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.’ – Mary Leakey

‘Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.’ – Samuel Alexander

‘Literature is always about bygone times. It’s always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.’ – Amos Oz

‘It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.’ – Adam Savage

‘What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.’ – John Bytheway

‘Love is three quarters curiosity.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.’ – Freya Stark

‘The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.’ – Irvin D. Yalom

‘I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.’ – Ken Robinson

‘People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ Well, on the first place, I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it’s too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven’t run out of curiosity.’ – Robert Rauschenberg

‘Without transformation, you can assume you’re at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.’ – Richard Rohr

‘The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.’ – Michael D. Higgins

‘Amid apocalyptic dystopia, ‘Fahrenheit 451”s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization’s ashes.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.’ – Harry Lorayne

‘If you’re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.’ – Diane Sawyer

‘Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.’ – Alistair Cooke

‘Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they know it’s always something.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.’ – Jeremy Taylor

‘Basically, life isn’t just about eating and partying – we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.’ – Varun Sharma

‘My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.’ – Mario Testino

‘It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.’ – Irving Langmuir

‘A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we’re excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.’ – Adrianne Lenker

‘It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.’ – Chuck Berry

‘I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘Curiosity did kill the cat, but I’m very curious.’ – Brittany Murphy

‘Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.’ – Sal Khan

‘I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.’ – Elvis Costello

‘I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence – you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.’ – Angela Duckworth

‘Donald Trump is a disaster. He is a bully who doesn’t have the curiosity to understand the issues; he contradicts himself repeatedly; his views of the world are an unmitigated disaster for America and for the American people, and I believe that all of this will become clearer with time.’ – Haim Saban

‘Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.’ – William Samuel Johnson

‘Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.’ – G. M. Trevelyan

‘The new normal is continuous learning, and we look for people who demonstrate lots of different interests and really demonstrate curiosity.’ – Julie Sweet

‘I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of – I don’t want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.’ – Pauline Chalamet

‘I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we’re living is even sustainable.’ – Brit Marling

‘What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.’ – Louie Schwartzberg

‘My mother has a lot of sisters. They had very, very interesting conversations. Because I was a quiet child, I would sit in the room and listen to these stories. I think I developed a curiosity about the life of other people from that, and an interest in looking at what was lying beneath the layer of what people present in public.’ – Ayobami Adebayo

‘I think that everybody should go out there and test their curiosity, find a haunted place.’ – Zak Bagans

‘Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.’ – Rana el Kaliouby

‘Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.’ – John Burroughs

‘I’m naturally curious, and I’ve always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.’ – Anne Sweeney

‘Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.’ – Alexandra Adornetto

‘Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.’ – Carrie Brownstein

‘Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted – not so much.’ – Cathy Engelbert

‘Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.’ – William Wirt

‘Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.’ – Brian Grazer

‘I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.’ – May-Britt Moser

‘It may be that our cosmic curiosity… is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘If it’s a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that’s because it’s true.’ – Adena Friedman

‘You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.’ – Opal Tometi

‘I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.’ – Anne Rice

‘We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.’ – Lydia Millet

‘My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.’ – Emma Lazarus

‘The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.’ – Anatole France

‘My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I’ve never done. Also, I’m a person whom people talk to.’ – Richard Ford

‘There are two sorts of curiosity – the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.’ – Robert Wilson Lynd

‘As long as you’re interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.’ – Joanna Coles

‘I’m a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘Never lose a holy curiosity.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.’ – Simon Schama

‘Popularity gets up people’s noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we’ve factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it’s more important that you ask the question ‘why.” – Killer Mike

‘Since most heroes are doing villainous roles these days, that thrill is lost. Earlier, there used to be a hero, a heroine, a villain and such. The villain’s entry would generate a lot of curiosity among the audience back then.’ – Ranjeet

‘I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.’ – James C. Collins

‘I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the ‘impossible’ position.’ – Amos Oz

‘I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.’ – Montserrat Caballe

‘I think there is a certain lack of curiosity when it comes to Canada because it just sort of seems like it’s just the North – what could be interesting about that?’ – Colter Wall

‘My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.’ – John Hodgman

‘Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.’ – Michael Korda

‘I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms… The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.’ – Frans de Waal

‘The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.’ – Ezra Pound

‘We’re born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don’t have a curiosity don’t have it because it’s gotten beaten out of them in some way.’ – Kip Thorne

‘Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you’re free to create NewCo.’ – Michael Gerber

‘I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.’ – Henry Petroski

‘I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto

‘Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.’ – Lara St. John

‘Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.’ – Aaron Klug

‘Don’t let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.’ – Jonny Kim

‘These are the sort of things that push you on in music – the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.’ – Elvis Costello

‘What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be ‘curiosity.’ – Eve Arnold’ – Eve Arnold

‘When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.’ – Andrew Coyle Bradley

‘I was lucky enough at a young age to find out what I had a passion for, but whatever you’ve got a curiosity for, just give it a shot.’ – Seth Rollins

‘It is only from the people I’ve had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge,’ for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers – quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.’ – Simon Sinek

‘Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.’ – Charles Lamb

‘I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.’ – The Edge

‘The one thing that ‘Via Dolorosa’ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.’ – David Hare

‘Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.’ – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

‘I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I’m curious about something, I’ll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.’ – Alain de Botton

‘I think the best learning takes place when you create an atmosphere of curiosity and excitement.’ – Michael Rosen

‘I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It’s supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn’t laugh. They shouldn’t laugh.’ – Limmy

‘If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it’s Minecraft.’ – Satya Nadella

‘It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.’ – Robert B. Laughlin

‘As a documentarian, you think, ‘Follow your curiosity.” – Ron Howard

‘I’m motivated by curiosity.’ – Pavel Durov

‘There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.’ – Hermann von Helmholtz

‘And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.’ – Elvis Costello

‘My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.’ – Malcolm X

‘Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.’ – Clarence Day

‘Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.’ – John Aubrey

‘The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.’ – William Winwood Reade

‘Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.’ – Alistair Cooke

‘One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.’ – Alexander Pope

‘I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.’ – Daniel Bell

‘People die when curiosity goes.’ – Graham Swift

‘As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don’t call you back, parts of the story you can’t get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.’ – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

‘I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.’ – Ted Allen

‘Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.’ – Petrarch

‘The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.’ – Lewis Tappan

‘Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.’ – Penelope Lively

‘I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.’ – James Kirkwood

‘I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.’ – Clyde Tombaugh

‘Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.’ – Philip Zimbardo

‘When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.’ – Martha Beck

‘That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.’ – Charles Lyell

‘Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.’ – John Barton

‘I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.’ – Paul Nurse

‘I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it’s what gets you through. So it’s partly just curiosity to see what you can do.’ – Robert Morgan

‘In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.’ – Henry Bessemer

‘While I don’t satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I’m terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that’s true about many of us.’ – Thom Gunn

‘We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.’ – Murray Gell-Mann

‘The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.’ – Fanny Kemble

‘There’s certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.’ – Claire Danes

‘I have an inate curiosity about people.’ – Martin Bashir

‘Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.’ – Martin Bashir

‘Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.’ – Paul Berg

‘The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet’s scale.’ – Jacky Ickx

‘I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.’ – Ian Hacking

‘The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.’ – Jurgen Klinsmann

‘The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.’ – Bryan Magee

‘My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis

‘I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.’ – Jose Saramago

‘The music and everything we’re doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that’s what gets people’s curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that’s fine.’ – Tina Yothers

‘So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.’ – Goldie Hawn

‘Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.’ – Samuel Horsley

‘Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven’t found with any interviewer.’ – Genevieve Gorder

‘Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson

‘I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.’ – Jonathan Miller

‘Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.’ – R. D. Laing

‘Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.’ – James Harvey Robinson

‘What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.’ – Robert Benchley

‘Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.’ – Fawn M. Brodie

‘Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.’ – Russell Baker

‘Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there’s curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn’t speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn’t felt in a while. But I like it.’ – Javier Bardem

‘I’m full of curiosity.’ – Sienna Miller

‘I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.’ – Michael Rapaport

‘Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.’ – Renee Fleming

‘The ‘information novel’ shouldn’t be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.’ – Richard Powers

‘It’s that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don’t subscribe to it.’ – John Byrne

‘Here’s the teaching point, if you’re teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn’t absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.’ – George Tenet

‘I think when it comes to pop I’m past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it’s getting worse, actually.’ – Carly Rae Jepsen

‘I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.’ – William Shatner

‘I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘I’m strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying ‘I don’t agree’ and fighting with the children. It’s part of my curiosity for life.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.’ – Adam Savage

‘What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.’ – James Wolcott

‘It’s kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I’m now working in the security field as a public speaker.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.’ – Jason Mraz

‘Actually, I’ve never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I’ve always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I’ve been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.’ – Sam Wyly

‘With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.’ – Joe Murray

‘I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.’ – Kate Walsh

‘What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.’ – Eve Arnold

‘I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa’s not a tiny town.’ – H. G. Bissinger

‘In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I’d like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there’d be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.’ – Tim Heidecker

‘I’d worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.’ – Michael Koryta

‘I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘I don’t separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they’re all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.’ – Peter Carey

‘What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.’ – Nina Arianda

‘Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world’s most important discoveries.’ – Gordon Gee

‘My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.’ – Chesley Sullenberger

‘My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.’ – Richard Artschwager

‘I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that’s the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.’ – Mary Frann

‘I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I’ve never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.’ – Nicholas D’Agosto

‘In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children’s curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore – in short, to play.’ – Darell Hammond

‘I don’t find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That’s it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.’ – Randa Abdel-Fattah

‘Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘I don’t remember being a child, and that’s why I think I’m so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.’ – Marianne Wiggins

‘Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn’t.’ – Charles Saatchi

‘What is the meaning of ‘gossip?’ Doesn’t it originate with sympathy, an interest in one’s neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one’s self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?’ – Lucy Larcom

‘I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.’ – Daphne Guinness

‘Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they’re doing what they’re doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.’ – A. S. Byatt

”The Big Sleep’ would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart’s relation to the crime.’ – Manny Farber

‘As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn’t change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and ‘human.” – Trent Reznor

‘Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that’s all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.’ – Joshua Michael Stern

‘Being Bob Marley’s son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I’m very proud of my music, and I’m very proud of where I’m from. People hear that I’m Bob Marley’s son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.’ – Damian Marley

‘That’s probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role when you do have a fan base as potent as the ‘Battlestar Galactica’ family. There was certainly a lot of curiosity to all of us on that show – what are you going to do next? Where can we see you next? That was a question we got more often than not.’ – Michael Trucco

‘I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, ‘I want that.” – Anne Sweeney

‘Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I’ve always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That’s where it all begins.’ – Michael Palin

‘Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling – I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.’ – Michael Palin

‘I am writing to make sure that kids don’t lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child’s natural curiosity.’ – Adora Svitak

‘Kids are naturally curious about what they don’t know, or don’t understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?’ – Alan Alda

‘I’m into old-time music; I’m not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I’m really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I’m always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there’s some connection between visual images and music.’ – Robert Crumb

‘The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It’s a passion. And I can’t understand people who don’t want to travel.’ – Paul Theroux

‘Because of my capacity for listening to strangers’ tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.’ – Paul Theroux

‘I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.’ – Hilary Duff

‘The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage – curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called ‘the future.” – David Suzuki

‘I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?’ – Dick Cavett

‘I don’t have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It’s probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it’s about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.’ – Raf Simons

‘I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.’ – Waris Ahluwalia

‘The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life’s work.’ – Randy Schekman

‘A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn’t work in a grown-up house.’ – Jamie Cullum

‘I’m a dilettante. My governing word is ‘curiosity.” – Ian Hacking

‘There is always a place I can take someone’s curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we’re done. That’s my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Every day, I wake up and I say, ‘Why… how… did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?’ It’s freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there’s an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There’s an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity – that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.’ – Ben Schott

‘I have a natural curiosity for people.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.’ – Barbara Kopple

‘We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world’s problems.’ – Jason Silva

‘What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.’ – Hamdi Ulukaya

‘I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.’ – Ranbir Kapoor

‘I move around a lot. I’ve lived in a ton of different places – and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.’ – Hilarie Burton

‘I’m not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, ‘Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?” – Wong Kar-wai

‘Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.’ – James Stephens

‘Here’s a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That’s no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It’s simply vulgar curiosity, and I won’t have it.’ – Patrick O’Brian

‘Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can’t control – ‘Forbidden Planet’s Monsters of the Id.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘It’s necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It’s absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It’s the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.’ – John le Carre

‘For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘Really, I’m only alive out of curiosity. I’m very curious about where we’re all marching.’ – John Hurt

‘Mostly I’m writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.’ – Raymond E. Feist

‘It’s a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient – just answer the same question again as if it wasn’t answered a moment ago.’ – Patti Davis

‘Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.’ – Peter Agre

‘You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity – I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.’ – Nina Garcia

‘Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn’t hidden in any way.’ – Karin Slaughter

‘The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.’ – Gillian Cross

‘Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.’ – Giles Foden

‘I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.’ – Jack Williamson

‘I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don’t want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there’s a curiosity.’ – Jonathan Dimbleby

‘I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt… I love it.’ – Clive Davis

‘The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.’ – Francois Englert

‘Intellectual curiosity about one’s own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn’t cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.’ – Eric Betzig

‘I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.’ – John O’Keefe

‘It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.’ – May-Britt Moser

‘One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself – early enough to make use of it – was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.’ – Craig Venter

‘Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.’ – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

‘People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.’ – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

‘I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I’m just constantly looking for new things to try. I’m really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.’ – Rivers Cuomo

‘Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother’s medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.’ – Barry Marshall

‘As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.’ – John Burnside

‘Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night – just don’t try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.’ – David Hewson

‘If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.’ – Ada Yonath

‘I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.’ – Mary Ellen Mark

‘Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.’ – Caitlin Doughty

‘Many dancers are content with the repertoire they’re given. Others are dissatisfied but don’t know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That’s the eternal question.’ – David Hallberg

‘I happen to love science… Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.’ – Richard Preston

‘One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.’ – Joseph Jacobs

‘The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of ‘Deadly Curiosities,’ my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.’ – Gail Z. Martin

‘The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.’ – Arthur Kornberg

‘Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question ‘What’s going on here?’ can be elicited.’ – Oliver E. Williamson

‘People want to know about what’s going on with what’s in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It’s a lot of curiosity out there.’ – Sheldon Lee Glashow

‘What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.’ – David Bergen

‘I’ve always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.’ – Gayle Lynds

‘One of the things I’ve always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn’t mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It’s just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it.’ – Albert Hammond, Jr.

‘What drew me to Kazakhstan was a curiosity to learn about life in this ‘middle earth’ of steppe between the endless forests of Russia in the north and the world’s greatest mountain chains to the south.’ – Tim Cope

‘Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.’ – Jay Parini

‘Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don’t get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don’t be lured into responding to incentives.’ – James Mirrlees

‘For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I’m different.’ – Shakira

‘Every single day, I’m curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.’ – Mickey Drexler

‘I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.’ – Johnny Depp

‘I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.’ – Fernando Botero

‘As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.’ – R. J. Cutler

‘It’s my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I’m always surprised. I’m always finding paths of engagement.’ – R. J. Cutler

‘I think my original inspiration came from just natural curiosity about science and math and biology. In particular, I would say that, as I matured, it became more a feeling of trying to avoid the waste that occurs in the world where we have 6.5 billion minds. If you’re a computer scientist, you can think of them as supercomputers.’ – George M. Church

‘Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.’ – James Mirrlees

‘I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there’s wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.’ – Michael Paterniti

‘Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn’t be a writer without depression.’ – Matt Haig

‘I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I’ve done some little bits and pieces – curiosities.’ – Hugh Grant

‘As a leader, I believe it’s important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at ‘Frontline’ with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.’ – Raney Aronson-Rath

‘I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.’ – Narciso Rodriguez

‘I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don’t know it all and that they’re dying to learn.’ – Kevin Plank

‘In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.’ – David Ebershoff

‘Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they’re leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they’re being entertained.’ – Ron Howard

‘I didn’t get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.’ – Buffy Sainte-Marie

‘If the response to ‘Suite Francaise’ is any indication, there’s a great deal of curiosity about Nemirovsky, and the best way to deal with it is to produce another book. So much of her work has been unavailable, and we want to bring as much of it back into print as possible.’ – Sonny Mehta

‘Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator.’ – Melvyn Bragg

‘I am classically trained in French pastry, but I am American and have a natural curiosity and playfulness that comes through in my cooking. I like to present flavors that people are familiar with in unique combinations and forms that may surprise them.’ – Johnny Iuzzini

‘There’s a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.’ – Eva Chen

‘In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.’ – Walt Mossberg

‘I wasn’t intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.’ – Sam Hunt

‘I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel’s political importance, that encouraging a nation’s citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.’ – Andrew Solomon

‘When writing ‘Give and Take’ and ‘Originals,’ the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.’ – Adam Grant

‘As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible – literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.’ – Holly Hunter

‘One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.’ – Valerie Plame

‘When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn’t want it showing up on the bill.’ – Ari Graynor

‘Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.’ – Cameron Winklevoss

‘A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.’ – David Grann

‘I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It’s energizing. It’s spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.’ – Brian Grazer

‘I don’t like to boss people around. I don’t get motivated by telling people what to do, I don’t take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.’ – Brian Grazer

‘Curiosity at work isn’t a matter of style. It’s much more powerful than that. If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You’re letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.’ – Brian Grazer

‘Where do I get the confidence to be different? A lot of it comes from curiosity. I spent years as a young man trying to understand the business I’m in. I have spent decades staying connected to how the rest of the world works.’ – Brian Grazer

‘Under no condition can you teach curiosity.’ – Brian Grazer

‘Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it’s up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.’ – Brian Grazer

‘It’s a business driven by curiosity. If you don’t want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it’s the wrong business. But if you do… I’ve had an unbelievable front row seat.’ – David Muir

‘There’s so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It’s always in the news.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn’t really have connected otherwise.’ – Kelly Evans

”Vogue’ and ‘Vice’ may appear to some to see the world through different lenses. But in my view, both are fearless and breathtaking, with unquenchable curiosity and vigor.’ – Anna Wintour

‘I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It’s very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.’ – Lee Radziwill

‘How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber.’ – Steven Levy

‘I have no curiosity. I’m an island boy.’ – Derek Walcott

‘Obama’s presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he’d awakened about American identity.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on ‘Discover.” – Peter Graves

‘In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally regarded, when it was regarded at all, as a technological curiosity.’ – Antonio Garcia Martinez

‘From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity – none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.’ – Amanda de Cadenet

‘I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being – either you like them or you don’t. You might not be able to list the reasons why you love your best friend or what attracted you to them; it’s just something that you feel – a connection, an understanding, or a curiosity that makes you want to get to know them.’ – Katherine Waterston

‘Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don’t really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.’ – David Bryan

‘More than anything else, I’m a very calm person in the sense that I don’t worry about the future and what my life could be. I just have to face it, and I’ll face it with enthusiasm as well as the desire and curiosity to test myself.’ – Gianluigi Buffon

‘I eat healthily and exercise, and I’m not giving up and saying I’m too old – I’m just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.’ – Ellen Burstyn

‘Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘I’m talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.’ – Valerie Harper

‘The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.’ – Anthony Doerr

”Research,’ for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one’s memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘I try to be led by my curiosity.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘What always drove me was my curiosity. That’s what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.’ – Gillian Tans

‘As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.’ – W. Kamau Bell

‘Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.’ – Janet Mock

‘Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.’ – Mark Parker

‘I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.’ – Carl Hart

‘In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.’ – Karyn Kusama

‘A movement only takes form from that first act. Exploring a curiosity, or a real passion, and being motivated by a desire to solve something – that’s really the best way.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.’ – Mary Pilon

”Carnival Row’ is us looking at the stranger; ‘The Curiosity’ is the stranger looking at us.’ – Travis Beacham

‘The idea that a story has to be ‘exceptional’ in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person’s story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn’t hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing – only a sense of curiosity and offering?’ – Leslie Jamison

‘Whether it’s a poem I’m working on or a picture I’ve snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.’ – Gerard Malanga

‘Mary Roach’s curiosity is notoriously infectious.’ – Michelle Dean

‘My Grinnell education didn’t prepare me directly for the work that I’m doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.’ – Hilary Mason

‘I knew ‘Transparent’ and saw a few episodes of ‘Orange is the New Black,’ so I knew about the trans actor in that cast. Of course, I saw ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ back in the day. But the path that led me to this subject was different… it’s just my curiosity as a human being more than my awareness of any political struggles.’ – Sebastian Lelio

‘To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in ‘search mode,’ you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.’ – Clemantine Wamariya

‘For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.’ – Wyatt Cenac

‘I feel like there’s always a lot of curiosity about what happens in America.’ – Channing Dungey

‘I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I haven’t explored through writers’ festivals or through the kind of campus visits that I do on a regular basis and engaging with people who may be readers of poetry and may not.’ – Tracy K. Smith

‘My curiosity and love for food started at an early age. My mother was a working mom, so I learned to whip up sweet and savory food using everyday pantry and grocery store ingredients that required little supervision.’ – Christina Tosi

‘Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren’t just important; they are among the essential human activities.’ – Glenn Kelman

‘I’m proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.’ – Eugene Parker

‘Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.’ – Genesis P-Orridge

‘When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was sheer accident, and then I began to wonder.’ – Margaret MacMillan

‘Art fairs are a lot like professional proms – you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases, you make friends forever. I think that for artists, they can be a bit controversial: they stimulate curiosity, but at the same time, you’re always trying to not have your work hung on a wall.’ – Maurizio Cattelan

‘I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions – that’s behind my curiosity.’ – Paul Allen

‘Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.’ – Paul Allen

‘Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even better: create a context in which people can give free rein to their curiosity and natural love of learning so that they realize they’re already smart.’ – Sal Khan

‘Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you’ve got. Maybe it’s your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.’ – Chris Gardner

‘You’re changing every day, right? Your curiosities and ambitions change, your ear changes, the music you like changes – and the music you want to make, too.’ – Ryuichi Sakamoto

‘In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.’ – Cai Guo-Qiang

‘As a member of the audience, when you see someone from your country working in an international project, your curiosity about that film increases manifold.’ – Huma Qureshi

‘I have a natural curiosity about the world, and I just love to talk.’ – Danielle Campbell

‘If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you’ll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity.’ – Chris Jordan

‘I just had a great curiosity about how things worked.’ – Lisa Su

‘The core of what we’re doing is, we’re playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.’ – Jamie Hyneman

‘Neither Adam or I are scientists, we’re not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.’ – Jamie Hyneman

‘There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.’ – Jamie Hyneman

‘Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It… challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.’ – Bill Bradley

‘Studying my grandfather’s life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It’s why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.’ – Cory Barlog

‘I don’t think many people stare at people in wheelchairs because we see it regularly. I suppose if you see more in the media it will take away the curiosity.’ – Katie Piper

‘My observance as a practicing Muslim in the NBA is somewhat uncommon. Since joining the league in 2011, my dedication to my faith has aroused the curiosity of teammates, coaches, trainers and fans.’ – Enes Kanter

‘My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.’ – Hilary Hahn

‘I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.’ – Adam Conover

‘I used to assist my chachaji in his artificial jewellery business. One day, I got the opportunity to visit V. Shantaram’s film set to supply some jewellery. Curiosity got the better of me and before I knew it, I was playing an extra. Soon, roles with dialogues followed and the rest as they say, is history.’ – Jeetendra

‘My brother, who created the UFC, had a vision. He knew that people wanted to see who was the best fighter. People have curiosity, what style was the best? Boxing, wrestling, Gracie jiujitsu? It was a quest to find out.’ – Royce Gracie

‘The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate.’ – Alice Roberts

‘Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I’ve taught my children.’ – Tony Robinson

‘Turbines are a curiosity, but only once.’ – Anne Murray

‘There’s no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can’t be vital for a long, long time.’ – Peter Hedges

‘I suppose I’ve always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.’ – Richard Coles

‘In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there’s almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a certain set of beliefs and asking how they came to them, it is easier to gather a mob and silence opposing viewpoints by force.’ – Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

‘When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.’ – Sophie Dahl

‘I don’t want to be just the latest curiosity.’ – Terence Trent D’Arby

‘I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.’ – Emily Maitlis

‘It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.’ – Amala Akkineni

‘I lived in Calgary, and a lot of old WWE, WWF and WCW guys went through Calgary – whether to train or to work on the independent scene. When I lived there, I became immersed in all of this wrestling talk and it sparked my curiosity.’ – Laurel Van Ness

‘In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And with those game pieces come other stories we’re not familiar with. So, science fiction teaches us how to relate to outsiders, to foreigners, and to not approach any of that with fear, but a genuine curiosity.’ – Tamlyn Tomita

‘If Death Grips isn’t the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre’s threshold of extremity: The trio’s abrasive, jittery style teeters on the edge of palatability, and plays toward a morbid curiosity to which many listeners won’t succumb.’ – Anthony Fantano

‘I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.’ – Ann Widdecombe

‘I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.’ – Finneas

‘Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain. It was this sense of curiosity but never pressure.’ – Jacob Collier

‘Kerala has always evoked the curiosity of the world at large. We have contributed immensely in enriching such ideals which an egalitarian world would cherish to uphold.’ – Pinarayi Vijayan

‘I found, when I was working in restaurants, that I did have this sort of natural curiosity about why things work.’ – J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

‘Yet everybody’s experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.’ – Tom Burke

‘By inspiring children to pursue interests in STEM early on, we are instilling in them the curiosity needed to show them that these fields are as equally accessible to them as anyone else.’ – Jacky Rosen

‘From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a living in sport without taking punches to the head. But eventually, curiosity got the better of me. I needed to find out what the big deal was.’ – Chris Eubank Jr.

‘Being a star son, everywhere I would go the first question that I would face was When is your debut?’ I guess that’s why it had to be planned well, for the curiosity that exists about your debut film is the highest and it makes for grand openings.’ – Akhil Akkineni

‘If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.’ – Robert Greene

‘The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.’ – Rakhi Sawant

‘Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some, like my mother, have the curiosity of a child at the age of 94.’ – Suhasini Mulay

‘I am kind of a curiosity in England.’ – Sam Wanamaker

‘In the countries where they don’t know me, which is only America, wherever I go, the hotel, the restaurant, the airport, people go, ‘Oh, my! What’s that?’ That’s good. That’s good, because there is a curiosity there, which is great.’ – Demis Roussos

‘I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women’s national team for women’s football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we’ve done in order to become as successful as we have.’ – Tobin Heath

‘I’m vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them the curiosity to find more about that.’ – Alok Nath

‘Mystery and curiosity are real motivators.’ – Peter Molyneux

‘The whole point here, and the seed that JJ Abrams laid in my mind is, is the power of curiosity enough? What happens next? That dramatic construct is what has driven soap operas and serialised novels over the course of history.’ – Peter Molyneux

‘Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You’ve got to awaken their curiosity. You become a bit of an entertainer.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘Interacting with different people who have different stories sparked my curiosity about what makes people not only good at what they do, but also good, period.’ – Harrison Barnes

‘But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.’ – Jack Hemingway

‘Everything I do is storytelling; storytelling is about curiosity.’ – David Baddiel

‘To make yourself a good scientist I would say first, you have to have curiosity. If you don’t have any curiosity you better choose something else.’ – Tasuku Honjo

‘Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That’s where science starts, in my opinion.’ – Tasuku Honjo

‘Curiosity is the most important.’ – Tasuku Honjo

‘I find children amazing and so interesting, intelligent and insightful – their curiosity is something I can relate to. And I feel they deserve stories that can cultivate them, and if that happens at a young age, then the sky’s the limit.’ – Vick Hope

‘I was a very curious young man in many different aspects. My curiosity about all the things that came with football became very strong and I wasn’t really prepared for that. So, it would have been quite nice to have someone who said, ‘It’s okay to be curious, but remember the big picture.” – Nicklas Bendtner

‘Curiosity is the most important thing in life. If you are thinking that you’re a finished product – that you’re done and no one can teach you anything – then you’re gonna have a miserable life.’ – Aimee Lou Wood

‘People who have not seen me or don’t know much about me are curious and that I don’t mind that bit of curiosity, it has its own charm. At the same time, I also understand the importance of being visible socially.’ – Tanishk Bagchi

‘We’ve always been value-driven with things like gratitude, curiosity, courage, humility and a sense of community.’ – Doug Burgum

‘Everything we do in state government, we do with a shared purpose: to Empower People, Improve Lives and Inspire Success. Combined with our shared values of gratitude, curiosity, humility and courage, we’re working to develop a positive and innovative state government culture in North Dakota.’ – Doug Burgum

‘There’s this big curiosity about how much money I spent for my wedding, and how much per plate, and all this good stuff. Let’s be very clear – I paid for my own wedding. There were no loans. Nothing was done on barter.’ – Eva Marcille

‘In fact, Obama’s intellectual curiosity and suppleness of mind is, in my view, one of his biggest selling points, whatever your political beliefs.’ – Norah Vincent

‘My curiosity and my academic side only really came through outside of school life.’ – Paterson Joseph