“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.”
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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...”
Thomas Hobbes
2 quotes“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”
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.”
André Gide
1 quote“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”
Anton Chekhov
1 quote“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.”
Bill Nye
1 quote“Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.”
Pascal
1 quote“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
Carl Sagan
1 quote“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Dorothy Parker
1 quote“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Gilbert Chesterton
1 quote“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any...”
George Eliot
1 quote“A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-gl...”