"Children are born true scientists."
R. Buckminster Fuller
92 FAMOUS QUOTES · CURIOSITY
Read 92 famous curiosity quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Children are born true scientists."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet."
Stephen Hawking
“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
“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”Walt Disney
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”Marcus Aurelius
“The natural desire of good men is knowledge.”Leonardo da Vinci
“Good men by nature wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work, men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.”Leonardo da Vinci
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”Leonardo da Vinci
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”Khalil Gibran
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”George Bernard Shaw
“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.”Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“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.”David Bowie
“I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.”Dalai Lama
“All men by nature desire to know.”Aristotle
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”Aldous Huxley
"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
"Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own."
James Cameron
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet."
Stephen Hawking
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."
E. B. White
"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive."Eleanor Roosevelt
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
Samuel Johnson
"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
Charles Darwin