A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.

                         —Smiley Blanton

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing.

                               —Oscar Wilde

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

                                —Marie Curie

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.

                     —La Rochefoucauld

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

                                   —Ellen Parr

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

              —William Arthur Ward

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

                          —G.M. Trevelyan

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

                       —James Stephens

One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life / Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.

  —Chaucer (Canterbury Tales)

There are two sorts of curiosity — the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

                               —Robert Lynd

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

                —Leonard Rubenstein

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

                           —Alistair Cooke

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

                          —Eugene Wilson

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

                             —William Wirt

Judge a person by their questions rather than their answers.

                                       —Voltaire