A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity.
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.
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
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.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Desire to know why, and how — curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge — exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself — it's eerie.
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 would be curiosity.