51 quotes
“We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.”
"Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!"
— Zhuangzi
"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
— Plato
"I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best."
— Michael J. Fox
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan
"Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions."
— Bill Nye
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
— W.B. Yeats
"If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it."
— Thomas Mann
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
— Thomas Hobbes
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
— Stephen Hawking
"How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?"
— Robert Frost
"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."
— Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
— Neil Armstrong
"The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible."
— Neal Shusterman
"What makes your heart leap?"
— Jonas Salk
"The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew."
— Gregory Maguire
"There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn."
— Gordon B. Hinckley
"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
— Gloria Steinem
"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."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
— Pascal