Quotes about Curiosity

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved.

People are curious about how things are made.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger