Quotes tagged "Curiosity"
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
— Walt Disney,	Quotable Walt Disney
Tagged: Curiosity, Be Curious, Sense of Adventure
"I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide."
— Johnny Depp,	via Amazon
Tagged: attracted, Attraction, Extremes, light and dark, Human Condition, Secrets, interests, Curiosity, People
"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."
— Maya Angelou,	Getting There: Maya Angelou
Tagged: Learning, Knowledge, Curiosity, Intelligence
"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."
— Sally Ride,	COVER STORY: Private Property : Ask Sally Ride About Her Research. Or Her Program to Revolutionize Science Education in America. But Skip the Queries on the Glory of Space Travel, and Don't Even Think About Anything Personal.
Tagged: Science, Curiosity, Knowledge, Adventure, Investigating
"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
— Edgar Allan Poe,	The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Tagged: believing, Trust, Curiosity, Advice
"When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'"
— Leonardo Dicaprio,	Leonardo DiCaprio talks about being Romeo, going down with the Titanic, and whether it's worse to be really really fat or really, really old.
Tagged: Childhood, Memories, Youth, Curiosity, Wonder
"It was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything."
— Joseph Heller,	Catch-22
Tagged: Wisdom, Curiosity, Knowledge, Intelligence
"Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?"
— Neil Gaiman,	Stardust
Tagged: human, Curiosity
"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
— Sigmund Freud,	A quote by Sigmund Freud
Tagged: Forgetting, Curiosity
"I was a battleground of fear and curiosity."
— H.G. Wells,	The War of the Worlds
Tagged: battleground, Fear, Curiosity, Feelings, Metaphor
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
— G. K. Chesterton,	Heretics
Tagged: interesting, Curiosity, Personality
"But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going."
— Ray Bradbury,	Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Relatable, Curiosity, humanity, Watching People
"Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"
— David Baldacci,	The Camel Club
Tagged: kindness, Curiosity, Reading, Books
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."
— E. B. White,	Charlotte's Web
Tagged: Curiosity, Adventure, Passion
"I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers."
— S.E. Hinton,	That was Then, This is Now
Tagged: Childhood, Youth, Imagination, Curiosity
"I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things."
— Fred Rogers,	The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
Tagged: emotions, Behavior, Certainty, Curiosity
"Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression…Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect."
— Thomas Mann,	Death in Venice
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationship, Curiosity
"But in some curious way — I wonder will you understand me?"
— Oscar Wilde,	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tagged: Curiosity, comprehending, Understanding
"You can't hate something if you're curious about it."
— Hank Green,	Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality
Tagged: Education, Curiosity
"Being alert and curious about your fear allows it to become your teacher as well as to serve your growth."
— Phillip Moffitt
Tagged: Alertness, Curiosity, Fear, Growth