Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea read more

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only read more

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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

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

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing read more

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.