Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

With us, the infantile inquisitiveness is strengthened and stretched out into our mature years. We never stop investigation. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on the another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Glory and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

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

Eminence interested her far less than decadence; she understood that her readers felt an obscure, understandable pleasure reading about degradation but resented, in a perfectly human way, too long a tenure by the Famous in the pinnacles of success.

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God s secrets or one's wife.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.