Top 60 Curiosity Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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2. “Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.”

— Danielle LaPorte

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3. “Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

— Samuel Johnson

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4. “I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody’s ever been.”

— John Glenn

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5. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Socrates

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6. “To be interesting, be interested.”

— Dale Carnegie

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7. “My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

— Malcolm X

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8. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

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9. “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”

— Frank Zappa

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10. “Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.”

— Jane Fonda

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11. “It’s a crazy world out there. Be curious.”

— Stephen Hawking

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12. “I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”

— Stephen Hawking

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13. “Ideas come from curiosity.”

— Walt Disney

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14. “Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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15. “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

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16. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

— Bill Nye

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17. “Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

— Walt Disney

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18. “Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Travel Quotes

19. “The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”

— Isaac Asimov

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20. “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but ‘That’s funny...’”

— Isaac Asimov

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21. “I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.”

— Richard P. Feynman

22. “When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

— Walt Disney

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23. “Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.”

— Helen Clark MacInnes

24. “One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

— Abdul Kalam

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25. “No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.”

— Stephen Hawking

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26. “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

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27. “If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it – you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

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28. “I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.”

— Stephen Hawking

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29. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”

— Aristotle

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30. “If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”

— Seneca the Younger

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31. “Philosophy begins with wonder.”

— Aristotle

32. “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

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33. “The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.”

— Isaac Asimov

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34. “The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.”

— Plato

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35. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

— Og Mandino

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36. “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”

— Gerry Spence

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37. “There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”

— Carl Sagan

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38. “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

Also featured in: Imagination Quotes, Graduation Quotes

39. “I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.”

— Walt Disney

40. “Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

41. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had – everyday I’m learning something new.”

— Richard Branson

42. “Wisdom begins in wonder.”

— Socrates

43. “The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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44. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”

— William Arthur Ward

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45. “The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.”

— Jeff Bezos

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46. “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”

— Socrates

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47. “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

— John Green

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48. “We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Science Quotes

49. “Every day you learn something new.”

— Dennis Brown

50. “People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn’t understand. It’s a sense of empowerment.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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