Curiosity Quotes To Inspire You To Keep Learning

Looking for quotes about being curious? We have rounded up the best collection of curiosity quotes, sayings, proverbs, captions, and status (with images and pictures) to inspire you to learn more about the world around you and get answers to bigger questions in life.

To be curious means being eager about knowing something, which is a key factor for learning. It makes your mind active.

Curious people ask questions and search for answers. Our mind is like a muscle that becomes stronger with continuous exercise, this mental exercise is also caused by curiosity that makes our mind stronger.

As the popular saying goes, “Curiosity killed the cat.” The meaning of this phrase is that if we poke our nose into something or someone else’s matter it may be harmful to us in the end. This expression discourages curiosity. But curiosity also has a flip side, which is the positive side to it.

Curiosity is the desire to learn. Learning more about things that we don’t know helps us to explore new ideas and ventures. Inquisitiveness leads us to discovery and can do wonders.

There are a lot of things in the world from which we can learn, the more curious we become, the more knowledge we can gain that can help us to accomplish things we want. As quoted by Albert Einstein, “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”

If we stay stuck to what we have and what we know, we will be at a standstill in life. To grow in life it is important to be creative and try to learn new things. Curiosity helps us to discover wonderful things and allows us to achieve greater things beyond our horizons.

Famous Curiosity Quotes

  1. “Curiosity killed the cat.” — Proverb

  2. “Intelligence follows curiosity.” — James Clear

  3. “Replace judgment with curiosity.” — Lynn Nottage

  4. “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” — Thomas Hobbes

  5. “Curiosity often leads to trouble.” — Alice In Wonderland

  6. “Curiosity is the engine of achievement.” — Ken Robinson

  7. “Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.” — Francoise Sagan

  8. “Curiosity is the forerunner of discovery.” — Richard Duke

  9. “The path to innovation begins with curiosity.” — Robert Iger
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    curiosity quotes

  10. “Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.” — Neil Blumenthal

  11. “The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.” — Anatole France

  12. “Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  13. “Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” — Bryant H. McGill

  14. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William Arthur Ward
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    quotes curiosity

  15. “As a documentarian, you think, ‘Follow your curiosity.’” — Ron Howard

  16. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” — James Stephens

  17. “I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.” — Andie MacDowell

  18. “Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.” — Susan Dennard

  19. “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” — Albert Einstein
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    quotes about curiosity

  20. “Stay human, stay curious and let the entire world know that you are.” — Micheal Stevens

  21. “Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.” — Kij Johnson

  22. “Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.” — Richard Whately

  23. “Curiosity is a willing, a proud, and eager confession of ignorance.” — S. Leonard Rubinstein

  24. “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.” — Samuel Johnson

  25. “Curiosity is the spark behind the spark of every great idea. The future belongs to the curious.” — Unknown

  26. “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” — Zora Neale Hurston

  27. “Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.” — Carrie Brownstein

  28. “Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” — Linus Pauling

  29. “Curiosity keeps us moving forward, exploring, experimenting, opening new doors.” — Walt Disney

  30. “Curiosity is the curse of the Clever. Or perhaps cleverness is the curse of the Curious.” — Kelly Barnhill

  31. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” — Leo Burnett

Quotes About Curiosity

  1. “Ideas come from curiosity.” — Walt Disney

  2. “Awaken the curiosity within you.” — ATGW

  3. “Be curious, not judgmental.” — Walt Whitman

  4. “The future belongs to the curious.” — Anonymous
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    quotes on curiosity

  5. “Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.” — Billy Cox

  6. “Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature.” — Freya Stark

  7. “Intellectual curiosity is a superpower.” — Anthony Pompliano

  8. “Your curiosity is your growth point always.” — Danielle LaPorte

  9. “A person without curiosity may as well be dead.” — Judy Blume

  10. “Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.” — Rose Wilder Lane

  11. “Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.” — James Cameron
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    Curiosity Quotes Images

  12. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” — Anonymous

  13. “Let your curiosity lead you down a road that is less traveled.” — ATGW

  14. “If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.” — Danielle LaPorte

  15. “I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.” — Waris Ahluwalia

  16. “Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.” — Augustine of Hippo

  17. “When you’re curious you find lots of interesting things to do.” — Walt Disney

  18. “The more curious you are, the more secrets will be revealed.” — Nitin Namdeo

  19. “One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.” — William Lyon Phelps

  20. “Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance, and self-criticism.” — Albert Einstein

Inspirational Curiosity Quotes

  1. “Curiosity is life.” — Mark Parker

  2. “Curiosity is the real teacher.” — Thibaut

  3. “Learning is by nature, curiosity.” — Plato

  4. “Never lose your curiosity.” — Anonymous

  5. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” — Socrates

  6. “Exploration is curiosity put into action.” — Don Walsh

  7. “Curiosity is a mind in search of knowledge.” — Thibaut

  8. “Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Françoise Sagan

  9. “Curiosity is more important than IQ.” — Ana Lorena Fabrega

  10. “Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.” — Pema Chödrön

  11. “Curiosity is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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    curiosity quotes albert einstein

  12. “There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.” — Michael Dell


  13. “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” — Vladimir Nabokov

  14. “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.” — Bernard Baruch

  15. “Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  16. “Curiosity is the fuel for discovery, inquiry, and learning.” — Anonymous

  17. “Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  18. “The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.” — Larry King

  19. “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.” — Roy T. Bennett

  20. “A fool protects his reputation. The wise man asks questions.” — Maxime Lagacé

  21. “The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.” — Robin Sharma

  22. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” — Mdm. Marie Curie

  23. “Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination.” — Benny Goodman

  24. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” — Dorothy Parker

Curiosity Quotes About Children

  1. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” — Albert Einstein

  2. “Expectation creates limitation, open curiosity, create infinite possibilities.” — Unknown

  3. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” — Albert Einstein
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    intellectual curiosity quotes

  4. “A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” — Smiley Blanton

  5. “When education is seen as simply a means to an end, curiosity fades.” — Unknown

  6. “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them.” — Carl Sagan

  7. “It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.” — May-Britt Moser

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

  9. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein
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    famous curiosity quotes

  10. “The best students in school seek to satisfy their teachers. The best students in life seek to satisfy their curiosity.” — Johnny Uzan

Funny Curiosity Quotes

  1. “Curiosity killed the cat, and saved the rat.” — Unknown

  2. “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!” — C J Cherryh

  3. “Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.” — Steven Wright

  4. “They say… Curiosity killed the cat… I say… at least the cat died knowing.” — Unknown

  5. “Curiosity, curiosity, curiosity, is an imperious tyrant, and it will be obeyed.” — Unknown

  6. “My curiosity and my common sense are arguing again! I don’t think this is gonna end well.” — Unknown

  7. “If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life.” — Erwin Chargaff

  8. “If you’re curious, you’ll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.” — Diane Sawyer

  9. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.” — Tracy Morgan

  10. “A curious woman is capable of turning around the rainbow just to see what is on the other side.” — Chinese Proverb

  11. “Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It’s accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.” — David McCullough

  12. “The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here’s my question. If we’re on the surface of Mars, aren’t we the UFO?” — Jay Leno

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