Do you ever feel like your life is moving too fast and you don’t have time to enjoy the little moments? We get so caught up in our day-to-day lives that we forget to take a step back and appreciate all the amazing things around us.
One way to break out of this routine is to inject some curiosity into your life. Quotes about curiosity will help you do just that! They’ll remind you to take a few minutes every day to ask questions, explore new things, and be open to new experiences.
So go ahead and let your inner child run free! Who knows what exciting adventures lie ahead.
Quotes About Curiosity
The mainspring of genius is curiosity.
Charles Baudelaire
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Nora Roberts
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
Ken Robinson
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Oscar Wilde
I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman
If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life.
Erwin Chargaff
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead.
Susan Sontag
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
Jane Austen
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov
If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
Danielle LaPorte
The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.
Larry King
This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
Albert Einstein
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bringing a childlike wonder and a beginner’s mind to life maximizes both success and joy.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hallmark of curiosity is a thirst for knowledge that has no obvious utility. Being a lifelong learner is taking joy in exploration regardless of whether the discovery has immediate relevance. The goal is to understand for the sake of understanding.
Adam Grant
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
C.S. Lewis
Along with intellectual curiosity, we need interpersonal curiosity. Taking an interest in other people is the beginning of empathy.
Adam Grant
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
Françoise Sagan
It is very hard to do good work without being optimistic, exceptionally determined, and intellectually curious.
Sam Altman
The knowledge of all things is possible.
Leonardo da Vinci
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them.
Carl Sagan
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
Michel de Montaigne
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Blaise Pascal
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynman
To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.
Plato
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
Bernard Baruch
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
James Cameron
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
Charles Baudelaire
Exploration is curiosity put into action.
Don Walsh
Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.
Simon Sinek
Increasingly, I feel curiosity and an eagerness to learn is the most crucial skill in life. If you’re not curious, I’m not sure if there is much others can do to help you. But if you’re eager to learn, even if you aren’t particularly talented, then so much is possible.
James Clear
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
Alain De Botton
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
Charlie Munger
You’ll never be exceptional at something unless you think about it all the time.
Shane Parrish
Follow your own curiosity, and start looking internally instead of externally for the answers. Be honest with yourself about the intersection of your skills, your passions, and what the world values.
Sam Altman
Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is “hot” right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you’ll get paid extremely well.
Tim Ferriss
Ideas come from curiosity.
Walt Disney
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.
Criss Jami
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
If you open your hand, you may receive everything.
Dogen
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
Less certainty. More curiosity.
Neil Strauss
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.
Criss Jami
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
Steve Pavlina
The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Charles Baudelaire
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it.
Alain de Botton
Ignorance is a choice. Curiosity is a cure. It motivates people to educate themselves.
Adam Grant
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
Albert Einstein
Curiosity is the superpower for the second half of our lives — it keeps us learning, it keeps us asking questions, and it increases our self-awareness.
Brené Brown
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
Augustine of Hippo
Schools are about teaching compliance not fostering curiosity.
Shane Parrish
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Norton Juster
Actually, I’ve never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I’ve always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I’ve been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
Sam Wyly
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
Curiosity + Focus + Intention = a gateway to growth.
Shane Parrish
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
Edmund Burke
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin H. Fischer
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.
B.F. Skinner
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
Augustus William Hare
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Dr. Linus Pauling
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Marcus Aurelius
People die when curiosity goes.
Graham Swift
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
Parting Words
Curiosity is the engine that drives innovation and creativity. It’s what allows us to explore new ideas and possibilities. A little bit of curiosity can go a long way in sparking your imagination, so we hope these quotes have inspired you to bring out your inner child and explore the world around you with fresh eyes.
What’s your favorite quote about curiosity? Let us know in the comments below!
P.S. You might also like these related quote collections:
- Quotes About Imagination
- Quotes About Exploration
- Quotes About Wandering
- Quotes About Existence
- Quotes About the Unknown
Originally Published: October 29, 2022
✍️ Lima, Peru
