CURIOSITY

Related Subjects: Inquiry, Interest, Knowledge, Meddler, News, Question

1. Too much curiosity lost Paradise.—MRS. APHRA BEHN, The Lucky Chance
   

2. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.—BURKE
   

3. I loathe that low vice curiosity.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. Curiosity
   Does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.—ABRAHAM COWLEY, Ode on a Chair Made of Sir Francis Drake's Ship
   

5. Curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choking.—THOMAS FULLER
   

6. Curiosity is little more than another name for hope.—A. W. & J. C. HARE, Guesses at Truth
   

7. Curiosity is one of the perma­nent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
   

8. The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness, than confers pleasure. We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
   

9. There are different kinds of curiosity; one of interest, which causes us to learn that which would be useful to us; and the other of pride, which springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

10. Avoid him who, for mere curiosity, asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him.—LAVATER
    

11. Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.—LOCKE
    

12. No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
    

13. The over curious are not over wise.—MASSINGER
    

14. Eve, with all the fruits of Eden blest,
    Save only one, rather than leave that one unknown,
    Lost all the rest.—THOMAS MOORE
    

15. A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.—POPE
    

16. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will; indeed it has led many people into dangers which mere physical courage would shudder away from, for hunger and love and curiosity are the great impelling forces of life.—JAMES STEPHENS, The Crock of Gold
    

17. Curiosity is the direct inconti­nency of the spirit.—JEREMY TAYLOR, Holy Living
    

18. Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory.—RICHARD WHATELY
    

19. You know what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!—OSCAR WILDE, An Ideal Husband