Our Corrupted Compass

"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." 

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." 

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

"Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." 

"Why am I so curious? I don’t know. But I’ll find out." 

"Socrates told us, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge." 

"The spark of curiosity ignites passion in great minds." 

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." 

"Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity. Never lose a holy curiosity." 

"Perhaps the greatest virtue of man is curiosity." 

"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts." 

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." 

"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps man alive is curiosity!"

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." 

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." 

"People die when curiosity goes." 

"A person without curiosity may as well be dead."

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

"I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best." 

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"Curiosity sets us apart from the average lump of dirt."

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

"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." 

"When holy curiosity is driven by passion, and critical thinking by perseverance, wisdom and truth emerge." 

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." 

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." 

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

"He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind."

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." 

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." 

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

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." 

"Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity." 

"Curiosity is the ultimate power tool."

"Curiosity is the deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections."

"Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act."