Top 288 Curious Quotes

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones
What I like so much about Vero – the app and the community – is that it offers the perfect venue to share my work and myself with like-minded, curious people and without the negativity and hate that can come in other online forums.
Max Joseph
My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little, which she thought was rather good for him!
Claude Picasso
I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for ‘Top Model’ for that.
Fatima Siad
The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You’ve got to find it on your own. If you’re lucky, you do.
Richard Linklater
I’ve been curious ever since I was a little kid.
Herbie Hancock
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Mary Leakey
I’m interested in people. I’m curious about people, and of course we’re curious about people whose work we respond to. So I’m not saying that I don’t understand fascination with other people. But as it’s dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
Gaby Hoffmann
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Alfred Hershey
When I read Katana’s run in ‘Birds of Prey,’ I was curious about her restraint. She didn’t laugh, didn’t loosen up, didn’t seem to have a light side. I thought, well, that demure nature is what we believe of women of Old Japan, so she seemed not like a modern Japanese but from an earlier time.
Ann Nocenti
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
Edward Tufte
It is a curious fact that the word ‘essayist’ showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don’t worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
Rocco DiSpirito
Everyone wants to escape, everyone’s drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we’re all so curious as human beings.
Josh Bowman
It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one’s life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.
Marcel Duchamp
I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.
Larry King
Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Betty White
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
George Packer
My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don’t all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they’re all curious and interested and respectful.
Sean Astin
A lot of people ask me about my past. It’s part of my life, so I expect people to ask certain questions. Maybe they’re curious.
LeToya Luckett
I’m doing physics because I’m curious about how it works – full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don’t worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
Leonard Susskind
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
Adam Savage
It’s curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Lawrence Welk
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
Frederic Chopin
Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn’t – we peek around corners when we are least expected.
Ann Turner
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Vinoba Bhave
You always need to be curious and study.
Marco Bizzarri
I’ve always been really curious about the limits of human capability.
Tommy Caldwell
I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.
Neil Macdonald
I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life – how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.
Claire Denis
It’s curious that apart from the baroque ranting, ‘Sarah & Duck’ is very similar to ‘The Thick Of It’ – great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!
Roger Allam
Running out of material for ‘MythBusters’ is like saying, ‘We’ve done everything we could possibly do and we’re not curious or interested in anything.’ Let’s hope that never happens.
Jamie Hyneman
I think about death all the time. I know there’s nothing out there, but I’m curious. There’s a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
David Bailey
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
If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I’d do it in a flash. That’s what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It’s not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.
Alex Kingston
I’m proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that ‘smart is cool.’
Walter O’Brien
Every single day, I’m curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.
Mickey Drexler
For people who are very curious to know about what’s wrong with my stomach, this is the natural stomach of a person, who has lost 15 kgs of weight, this is how it looks when it is not photoshopped or surgically corrected.
Zareen Khan
A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I’m reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it’s stuff I’m just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I’m just curious.
Jake Tapper
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what’s happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
Jochen Zeitz
Jokes are very curious things psychologically.
James Callis
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.
Elizabeth Blackburn
All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we’re stubborn, but that’s our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.
Francisco Costa
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
George Grey
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cy

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
Michael Shermer
A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They’re curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum’s.
Jake Barton
Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.
Bill Maher
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It’s been important for me to cloister myself off.
Jewel
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
Paula Cole
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt Disney
There is something restless and curious about the Irish. Like everybody else, we want to make money and make our way in the world but it’s not the be all and end all. We also want to have fun, we want to make friends, make connections, share stories.
Ardal O’Hanlon
How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a small fish. For the 19th century, Bismarck was no herring but a leviathan. Between 1862 and 1890, he created Germany, seeing off first the Austrian empire and then France.
Margaret MacMillan
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.
John Bytheway
I grew up all over the world. My dad was a doctor but not a career-type doctor. He was very curious, so he took the whole family and moved to Miami in the ’70s, and we lived there for a couple of years. Then we continued like that and lived in various places around the world.
Johan Renck
I like to learn things from other cultures. I’m curious. It’s exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.
Lea Seydoux