Best 298 quotes in «curious quotes» category

I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.

Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time.

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Seattle is this curious liberal island.

Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

She surprised him by agreeing. "Yes, I was simply curious, and no, I would never criticize you in front of your followers. Do you have the patience to endure one more question, husband?" "What is it?" "When do you suppose you'll leave me behind?

One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

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.

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

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

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.

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!

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.