“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”

“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...”

“Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.”

“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”

“Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.”

“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.”

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

“We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.”