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Curious Quotes

Quotes on curiosity, wonder, and staying open to the world.

Being curious means paying attention to people and ideas without rushing to judge them, a theme that runs through this set of quotes. Several reflect on genuine interest in others, echoed in the outlook found across Being quotes.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Quotes by Terry Eagleton

Among the fables that inspired the British Admiralty's cartographic assignments to Captain James Cook in the 1770s and Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s was a 1640 account under the name of Bartholomew de Fonte that appeared in a journal...

Quotes by Terry Glavin

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

Quotes by Sturgill Simpson

I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.

Quotes by Steven Yeun

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

Quotes by Stefan Hell

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

Roughly 65% of American households owned a video recorder by 1989, when 'The Simpsons' was launched. This meant that fans could watch episodes several times and pause a scene when they had spotted something curious.

Quotes by Simon Singh

I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn't for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles.

Quotes by Scott Borchetta

Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.

Quotes by Sanjaya Baru

I was very curious to try being in a movie.

Quotes by Rusev

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney

When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'

Quotes by Rosario Dawson

I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of...

Quotes by Roman Coppola

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

Quotes by Robin Weigert

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Quotes by Robertson Davies

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.

Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices to animation films.

Quotes by Rasika Dugal

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

Quotes by Radha Mitchell

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

Quotes by Prabal Gurung

Other lines describe curiosity as a magpie-like habit of gathering whatever seems shiny into a story, or as a way of approaching even the biggest questions without pretending to have answers. See related thoughts in About quotes and I Am quotes.