Definition of Curiosity

Curiosity

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.

That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.

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Curiosity Quotations

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

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

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

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

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

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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Love is three quarters curiosity.
Giacomo Casanova

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

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Curiosity Translations

curiosity in Dutch is nieuwsgierigheid, weetgierigheid
curiosity in Latin is curiositas
curiosity in Norwegian is nyskjerrighet
curiosity in Portuguese is curiosidade
curiosity in Spanish is curiosidad, curiosidad
curiosity in Swedish is nyfikenhet

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