curiosity quotes

Mycuriosityabout alien cultureswas avidand obsessive. I had a placid belief that it was good for me to live in the midst of peoplewhosemotives Idid not understand; this unreasoned conviction was clearly an attempt to legitimize my curiosity.

- Paul Frederick Bowles
  Without Stopping:  An  Autobiography, ch.14.

Il y a toujours un moment o  u' la curiosite   devient un pe  che  , et le diable s'est toujours mis du co"  te   des savants. There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.

-Thibault
  Le Jardin d'Epicure.

And the motive for recording these scraps of the past? It Greenspan is much the same motive that has made me a novelist: a desire to reduce a chaos of experience to some sort of order, and a hungry curiosity.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
A Sort of Life, preface.

But there was one Elephanta new Elephantan Elephant's Childwho was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Just So Stories,'The Elephant's Child'.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

- Charles Lamb
  In the London Magazine, May^  Jul. Collected in Essays of Elia,'Detached Thoughts of Books and Reading'.

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Inventory'.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

- Graham Swift
  Waterland, ch.27.

   The brute curiosity of an angel's stare Turn you like them to stone.

- (John Orley) Allen Tate
  Poems1922^1947,'Ode to the Confederate Dead'.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilisation.

- George Macaulay Trevelyan
  English Social History.

Only when onehas lost all curiosity has onereached the age to write an autobiography.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  A Little Learning, opening words.