Curiosity Quotes (585 Quotes)

People love the horse, and that's what it is all about. This is something that money can't buy. I've owned horses for 27 years, and you dream of something like this. But I never dreamed that I'd have the wonder horse.

Essentially, the New York Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

We in Africa wonder Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behind the unrelenting despair.

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all it knew.

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 free-wheeling intelligence.

What is it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man from among themselves, saying Warn the people and give good news to those who believe that theirs is a footing of firmness with their Lord. The unbelievers say This is most surely a manifest enchanter.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

You've got to wonder, where would it go There's no spare refining capacity to refine it and we're starting to run out of places to store it. Crude stocks are swelled and there's little demand for that additional supply.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Love is Enough Love is enough though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant .... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known no wonder, then, that I return the love.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

It was something I did not expect at all at any time, ... I wonder, I wonder.

I was extremely fascinated by Casey Stengel. He was really such an intelligent guy, displaying an American wit, typical of one from the Midwest and the great author Mark Twain. I have always had a great curiosity, and I wanted to dig until I found what made this man who and what he was. I found that he was an incredibly funny guy with tremendous observational powers. Some people loved him and others hated him.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Joe always seemed to have trouble keeping a gig. Whether this was part of the reason why, I don't know, but it certainly makes you wonder.

That if gold rust, what shall iron do For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust, No wonder is a lewd man to rust.

The highest-percentage shot in basketball is Curry's meat and potatoes. Some wonder how the center acquired from Chicago will adjust to Brown's highly structured offense, but the coach isn't one of them. He's got a high basketball IQ, ... but I don't want him to be too smart. I want him to be on the block and score the ball, rebound it and block a shot. We'll work in that area.

Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

Gosh, who's surprised It does make me kind of wonder why they waited so long.

I'm tired and frustrated, wondering what we've done wrong, and or what we might have done differently. We can't help but wonder why in the world we cannot find him. The bottom line is, we just haven't had the luck it takes to go along with everything else.

I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I sill look back... with wonder.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end

I used to sit there and look over my shoulder at Irv when he was playing and wonder, what did this guy sound like 50 years ago when he was in his 30s He was a great musician up until the end.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

So, Mr. Chadband--of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin--retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

I'll be comfortable on stage if people come because they like the album and they really want to see me. Not because they look at it as a curiosity, or they're really skeptical.

Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

Is it any wonder that in the space of the last six months we have had headline speeches promoting the dangers of deflation only to be followed by fears of accelerating inflation

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

There was a curiosity as to what the common denominators in all the stories are,

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Everyone is making a really big deal about it, and that's great. America is my favorite place in the world. It is full of wonder and magic.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.