Curiosity Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My first grade nun had instructed me that from those to whom much is given, much is expected. I was learning that this lesson had to be combined with Shakespeare's wisdom that one must 'to thine own self be true.' Add to this humility, empathy, a sense of curiosity, courage, and plain old hard work, and I was finally seeing the real path to leadership. Of course, humor is always a plus. (158) — Jacqueline Novogratz

Open the book and read it to renew your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt. — Joshua Neik

Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone. — Jury Nel

A little wisdom can lead to great understanding.
A little curiosity can lead to great discoveries.
A little talent can lead to great achievements.
A little love can lead to great virtue.
A little faith can lead to great miracles.
A little opportunity can lead to great success. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Misfortunes make us wise — Mary Norton

I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity. — Debasish Mridha

All knowledge meets an end at the question ' ... Why? — Criss Jami

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say, - 'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out. — Meraaqi

Nature answers every question. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end. — Jeanette Winterson

Inventory:
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. — Dorothy Parker

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge. — Debasish Mridha

If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-education is lifelong curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Smile out loud! Make them wonder. — Ljupka Cvetanova

41 Never exaggerate. It isn't wise to use superlatives. They offend the truth and cast doubt on your judgment. By exaggerating, you squander your praise and reveal a lack of knowledge and taste. Praise awakens curiosity, which begets desire, and later, when the goods seem overpriced, as often happens, expectation feels cheated and avenges itself by running down the praised and the praiser. The prudent show restraint, and would rather fall short than long. True eminences are rare, so temper your esteem. To overvalue something is a form of lying. It can ruin your reputation for good taste, and - even worse - for wisdom. — Baltasar Gracian

Curiosity lights a fire;
wisdom illuminates it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat--to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and to hear, and to die because you were overly curious. To keep on wondering...about the afterlife. That is our only mission. Only one. If we don't wonder, then we will never, ever be curious. Then, if like the cat, you wondered too far...you simply no longer will have to ever wonder again. Your mission will be fulfilled. All because of curiosity.

--from The Wise-ass Man who butchered Eve Merriam's wisdom...and Her Secret — Stan Sudan

Curiosity-inspired questions bring clarity to your heart and help you see the pathway you're meant to travel. — Kami Guildner

The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe. — Albert Camus

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. — Rachel Carson

Souls spread over the planet and leave no mountain unclimbed, no valley undiscovered, no sea unsailed, ventured even into outer space.
Souls mingle and leave no relationship unattempted, no emotion unfelt, no pleasure and pain unexplored.
Souls plunge into their minds and leave no tale untold, no image unpainted, no melody unheard.
Souls transcend their fantasies and leave no idea unthought, no natural law undescribed, no wisdom undefined.
Souls even pass over the thinkeable and witness ineffable realms of other worlds and their inhabitants.
Curiosity, the drive to experience, the urge of urges, the world's innermost desire. We, souls, are its foremost scouts. We are the embodiment of the purpose of existence. — Stefan Emunds

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde

Feedback doesn't tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn't sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn't want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive. — Tara Mohr

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds. — Wes Fesler

Look back with compassion, look forward with curiosity, but live for the present moment with wonder and joy. — Debasish Mridha

Freedom is that which comes from knowledge, the freedom that comes from curiosity, the freedom that comes from the times when the first man did not refuse to look into a telescope and discovered other planets, the freedom that comes from those who tried relentlessly when all others said it was impossible. It is in this freedom that deviance has its roots. — Massimo Marino

Knowledge comes from curiosity; wisdom comes from experience. — Debasish Mridha

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. — Graham Greene

Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity. — Debasish Mridha

More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed. — Baris Gencel

Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else. — Debasish Mridha

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. — Holly Black

Go according to your curiosity. — Debasish Mridha

Do according to your capability.
Act according to your capacity.
Go according to your curiosity.
Be according to your possibility. — Debasish Mridha

The voyages of the great Chinese fleet were missions of exploration and commerce. They were not enterprises of conquest. No yearning for domination obliged Zheng to scorn or condemn what he found. What was not admirable was at least worthy of curiosity. And from trip to trip, the imperial library in Beijing continued growing until it held four thousand books that collected the wisdom of the world.
At the time, the king of Portugal had six books. — Eduardo Galeano

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 good, but creativity is greater. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret to wisdom is curiosity. — Yoshiko Uchida

Absence of questions is not proof of answers. — Sweety Shinde

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom. — Francoise Sagan

I live life with a daring curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding — Kirsten Siggins

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out. — Zander Sherman

I am not trying to teach you anything but trying to ignite the fire of curiosity for knowledge and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Replace Fear of Radiation with Curiosity — Steven Magee

Nature ... has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems. ... We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it ... It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised ... only to be disappointed at the end ... This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement. ... — Colin Maclaurin

My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this. — Hayden Carruth

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation. — Errol Flynn

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections. — Baris Gencel

Curiosity is a daring faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing.. — Nanette L. Avery

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world. — Phillip Lopate

We free our own minds
each time we pause to wonder
whether we are free. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level. — Loren Rhoads

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind. — Lance Conrad

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. — Karen Blixen