My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

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