Definition of Curious

Curious

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.

Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.

Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.

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Curious Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

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

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

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton

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

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh

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

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep

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

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber

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

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

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

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

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

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Thomas Hardy

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

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
Norman Mailer

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

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary Oliver

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Curious Translations

curious in Afrikaans is nuuskierig
curious in Danish is nysgerrig
curious in Dutch is typisch, curieus, vreemd
curious in Finnish is kummallinen
curious in Italian is memorabile, curioso
curious in Norwegian is nyskjerrig
curious in Portuguese is curioso
curious in Spanish is curioso
curious in Swedish is underlig, konstig, nyfiken

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