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This article is a collection of quotes on curiosity to engage our minds. It is a rare luxury these days to feel bored and find ourselves questioning things around us. However in some of those rare luxuries, if you find yourself asking questions, please indulge in them. Curiosity is indeed a virtue to explore and find the benefits from.

Quotes on curiosity

You can find plenty of inspiring quotes about curiosity. I love the innocent desire of knowing, constantly questioning and trying to get to the bottom of things. Scepticism has immense value even though most people will try and beat it out of you. Without doubts and curiosity, most of the developments and innovations in this world would not have happened.

1. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
   -Albert Einstein
2. “The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”
   -Edmund Burke
3. “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
   -Eugene S. Wilson
4. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
   -Albert Einstein
5. “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 should be curiosity.”
   –Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “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
7. “The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
   -Anatole France
8. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
   -Albert Einstein
9. “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
   -Thomas Hobbes
10. “What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.”
    -Roger Ebert
11. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
    -James Stephens
12. “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
    -Anatole France
13. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
14. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
    -William Arthur Ward
15. “Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. “
    -Richard Whately
16. “A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.”
    -Smiley Blanton
17. “Curiosity is a willing, a proud,an eager confession of ignorance.”
    -S. Leonard Rubinstein
18. “I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
    -Albert Einstein
19. “Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
    -Dr. Linus Pauling
20. “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
21. “Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.”
    -Clarence Birdseye
22. “Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was: curiosity.”
    -Jim Morrison
23. “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.”
    -Bernard Baruch
24. “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
25. “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last”
    -Samuel Johnson
26. “Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.”
    -Sudie Back
27. “I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.” Franklin P. Adams
28. “Desire to know why, and how — curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge — exceed the short vehemence of any carnal pleasures.”
    -Thomas Hobbes
29. “A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.”
    -Frederick Seitz