Curious Quotes

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

Forward, Moving, Down

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

Special, Talent

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

Courage, Moral, Common

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Men, Tired

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace, Happiness, Pain

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

Change, Accept, Paradox

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt Disney

Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

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

Business, Nice, Person

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
Shirley Manson

Women, Beautiful, Sex

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

God, Understand, Hear

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow

Find, Why, Insane

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
Honore de Balzac

Father, Become, Rather

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Respect, Simple, Drunk

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie

Love, Thought, Looking

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Words, Remember, Living

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
Louis C. K.

Live, Evil, Suffering

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature, Through, Trying

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton

Men, Sacrifice, Die

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.
Bill Maher

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie

Themselves, Knew, Habits

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer

Age, Passing, Mark

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian

Good, Envy, May

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

Longer, Ridiculous, Image

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Vinoba Bhave

God, Made, Rich

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Soul, Thinks

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.
Michael J. Fox

Kids, Maybe, Kid

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?
Ellen Barkin

Child, Parent, Loving

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives

Music, Hope, May

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