Best 298 quotes in «curious quotes» category

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

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

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.

These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else.

The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

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

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

A person should neither serious nor curious, to the thing which will not profitable for him/her life.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

Always treat everyone with respect. You never know who is secretly a psychopath.

And do I ask, wherefore my heart Falters, oppressed with unknown needs? Why some inexplicable smart All movement of my life impedes? Alas! in living Nature’s stead, Where God His human creature set, In smoke and mould the fleshless dead And bones of beasts surround me yet!

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.