Top 60 Curiosity Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.”

— Socrates

52. “Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if...’; And then do it.”

— Duane Michals

53. “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

— Thomas Hobbes

54. “You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.”

— Christopher Nolan

55. “The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

56. “Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence.”

— Isaac Asimov

57. “Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.”

— John Locke

58. “Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

59. “Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.”

— Neil Gaiman

60. “As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.”

— Stephen Hawking

61. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

— Lloyd Alexander

62. “The only dumb question is the question you don’t ask.”

— Paul MacCready

63. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.”

— Ray Bradbury

64. “It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

65. “Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.”

— Oprah Winfrey

66. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.”

— Andrew Zimmern

67. “Curiosity is the key to creativity.”

— Akio Morita

68. “When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.”

— Carl Sagan