"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

"They always forget the last part of that saying: curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back" its something to that effect anyway."
— Tamora Pierce

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose)

"Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back."
— Eugene O'Neill

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. "
— Colette

"Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant!
-Erik in The Phantom of the Opera"
— Gaston Leroux

"Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you."
— Daniel Quinn (My Ishmael)

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
— Samuel Johnson

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

"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times."
— Bernard Beckett (Genesis)

"These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Books)

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
— Dylan Thomas

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little planet, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be prompted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. On the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food handed out under such coercion were to be selected accordingly. "
— Albert Einstein

"She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering."
— Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady)

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

"The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes."
— H.L. Mencken (A Mencken Chrestomathy)

"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle."
— Leo Rosten

"His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies."
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

"Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why."
— Keri Hulme (The Bone People)

"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
— Smiley Blanton

"A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum."
— Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa)

"Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything."
— Floyd Dell

"The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking."
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

"If I know everything I am dead"
— Christian H. Leeb

"He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail."
— John Sayles (Los Gusanos)

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satesfying it afterwards."
— Anatole France (The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard)

"No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included."
— Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)

"Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!"
— Ann Fairbairn

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

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
— Freya Stark

"Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool."
— Mary Catherine Bateson

"The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest."
— Robet Lynd

"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth."
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this span of life by him who interests his heart in everything."
— Laurence Sterne

""we all proceed to live, but don't we just live to proceed?""
— alexandra brower

""Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form" "
— Alexander Skarsgård

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything."
— Laurence Sterne

" Mermon's tiny black dot eyes managed to widen into larger black dots. "No, no, no, Sir. I was just... curious."
"Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes you breath smell terrible. and too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead."
Veenie nodded carefully; it was a strange threat, but a threat nonetheless."
— Micheal Reisman, The Gravity Keeper