“Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.”
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.”
Thomas Hobbes
2 quotes“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”
Heraclitus
2 quotes“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”
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...”
Pascal
1 quote“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
Susan Sontag
1 quote“I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.”
Graham Greene
1 quote“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
Marie Curie
1 quote“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Carl Sagan
1 quote“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Thomas Hardy
1 quote“I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.”
Gregory Maguire
1 quote“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”