A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith

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.
Alexander Pope

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
David Attenborough

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
Elvis Costello

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
Tucker Carlson

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Mary Leakey

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
Philip Zimbardo

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley

Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.
Hector Babenko

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson