“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”
Others on Curiosity
Daniel Handler
2 quotes“Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.”
Heraclitus
2 quotes“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”
Thomas Hobbes
2 quotes“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
2 quotes“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 wo...”
Walt Disney
2 quotes“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us dow...”
John Donne
1 quote“Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.”
Agatha Christie
1 quote“In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple”
Plato
1 quote“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.”
George Santayana
1 quote“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Zhuangzi
1 quote“Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your pl...”
John Steinbeck
1 quote“Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.”
Anton Chekhov
1 quote“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.”