147 Natural Curiosity Quotes

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Famous Natural Curiosity Quotes

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. — Philo

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. - Gene Cernan

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. — Gene Cernan

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. — Samuel Johnson

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. - Albert Einstein

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. — Albert Einstein

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. - William Arthur Ward

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. — William Arthur Ward

The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. - Irving Langmuir

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. — Henry James

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein

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

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. — Walt Disney

Short Natural Curiosity Quotes

  • I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. — Immanuel Kant
  • Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov
  • Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. — Leo Burnett
  • Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond. — Buzz Aldrin
  • Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
  • Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. — Bryant H. McGill
  • Wonder implies the desire to learn. — Aristotle
  • You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity. — Christopher Nolan
  • Never stop asking questions and seeking answers. Curiosity fuels progress. — Jensen Huang
  • The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. — Albert Einstein

Natural Curiosity Image Quotes

Natural curiosity quote Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.
Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.

Nature Curiosity Quotes

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. — Robert Bly

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

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide. — Lilian Katz

Natural curiosity quote Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.

We all see nature's wonders every day, whether it be a plant that moves or a sunset that reaches with pink fingers into a sky of deep blue. The key to true curiosity is pausing to ponder the causes. What makes a sky blue or a sunset pink or a leaf of sleeping grass curl? — Jennifer Doudna

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. — Bill Gates

Natural curiosity quote The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

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

Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? — Stephen Jay Gould

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. — Freya Stark

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes. — Stanislaw Lem

Curious Life Quotes

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious. — Maxine Greene

Natural curiosity quote In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.
In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.

I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Thomas Wolfe

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Tom Wolfe

Natural curiosity quote The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that. — Tove Jansson

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. — Camille Claudel

People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work. — Tom Kundig

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives. — Pema Chodron

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime. — Manny Farber

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. — Daniel Bell

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science. — Jamie Hyneman

Natural curiosity quote Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him. — Edward Norris Kirk

What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence, wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace. — Diane Ackerman

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness. — Maria Popova

Natural curiosity quote Be curious, not judgmental.
Be curious, not judgmental.

It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives. — Philip Kitcher

Curiosity Of A Child Quotes

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end. — Akiane Kramarik

Maybe I'm just like a child. I'm full of curiosity about things, and it's fine as long as it's fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough. — Akira Toriyama

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder. — John Garrett

Natural curiosity quote Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy. — Tony Robbins

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. — Caroline Norton

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it. — Akiane Kramarik

Natural curiosity quote We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance. — Ken Robinson

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident. — Narendra Modi

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. — Mortimer Adler

Human Curiosity Quotes

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — E. E. cummings

Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it. — Gene Cernan

It's like, 'How can I reverse engineer what it takes to gain followers on a platform?' And I'm curious about how it works. And I'm the same way with people. I'm curious about what makes them tick. — Logan Paul

Natural curiosity quote Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?' I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out. — Gene Cernan

In all my travels, all my life adventures; I have to say I still don’t know what life is, absolutely no clue, and it is a subject that is constantly on my mind. One thing I do know for a fact is that the nicer we are to our fellow human beings, the nicer the universe is to us. — Joe Rogan

Natural curiosity quote Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it. — Abraham Verghese

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. — Harry Lorayne

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. — Elvis Costello

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit — E. E. cummings

Curiosity Quotes

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. — Albert Einstein

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison

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 four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.Einstein thinks that formal education is a waste of timeAlbert Einstein

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

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

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion — Kurt Hahn

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet. — Roald Dahl

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik

Being Curious Quotes

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. - Marie Curie

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. — Marie Curie

Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental. — Walt Whitman

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. — Man Ray

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain

I'm blessed to be curious about things. — Logan Paul

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. - Samuel Adams

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. — Samuel Adams

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting. — Jane Fonda

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. — Havelock Ellis

I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too. — Britt Nicole

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager. — Susan Sontag

Intellectual Curiosity Quotes

The clear thinking comes from having time to reflect and to pursue your genuine intellectual curiosity. — Naval Ravikant

A society that encourages curiosity and intellectual exploration is a society that thrives. — Bret Weinstein

You’re better off following your genuine intellectual curiosity. — Naval Ravikant

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. — Edith Wharton

Keeping your intellectual curiosity alive is really important. The only way that’s going to happen is if you learn what you love, if you read what you love, if you do what you love. — Naval Ravikant

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. — Caroline Kennedy

I don’t read anymore to complete books. I read to satisfy my genuine intellectual curiosity. — Naval Ravikant

True experts display intellectual curiosity. Fake experts try to shut down debate. — David O. Sacks

Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now. — Naval Ravikant

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies. — Steven Johnson

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More Natural Curiosity Quotes

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education. — Paul Lockhart

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind. — Francis Bacon

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. — Smiley Blanton

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. — Maria Montessori

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. — Paul Nurse

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. — Charles Darwin

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. — Alice Duer Miller

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. — Ian Hacking

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead. — Bill Watterson

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. — Aaron Klug

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries. — Anne Sweeney

In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures. — Paul K. Chappell

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. — Daniel Boone

My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature. — C. Wright Mills

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that. — Steven Chu

It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled to overbrimming as we are with questions, and naturally talented as we are for the asking of clear questions, and then for us to do nothing about, or worse, to try to suppress the questions. — Lewis Thomas

Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures. — John Locke

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites. — Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had. — Alice Walker

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant. — Mahlon Hoagland

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have a natural curiosity for people. — Nicholas Haslam

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own. — Noam Chomsky

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change. — Kathleen Norris

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. — Lara St. John

My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work. — Liza Minnelli

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