Quotes on Curious

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

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.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.