Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.
The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.
All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that it's not even worth to do it. It's just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you’re still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. . . . His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity. . . I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.