Quotes about Curiosity
Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.
— St. Augustine
Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?
— St. Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
— St. Augustine
Beware the man of a single book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
— Thomas Jefferson
Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.
— CS Lewis
I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.
— Christoph Waltz
You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
— George Bernard Shaw
If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.
— Jurgen Moltmann
The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.
— Billy Graham
I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.
— Ryuichi Sakamoto
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
— Frederick Buechner