C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”
“Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”
“Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.”
“Curiosity fed the dog.”
“Curiosity fueled our determination to keep questioning.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Curiosity fuels our knowledge and makes us wiser. The more curious we are, the more open-minded we tend to be as human beings.”
Source: Still Searching
“Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.”
Source: Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success
“Curiosity has feet to wander.
Awareness has hands to carry.
Discovery has wings to rise.
Imagination has feet to wander.
Passion has hands to carry.
Creativity has wings to rise.
Intellect has feet to wander.
Desire has hands to carry.
Experience has wings to rise.
The mind has feet to wander.
The heart has hands to carry.
The soul has wings to rise.
The past has feet to wander.
The present has hands to carry.
The future has wings to rise.
Time has feet to wander.
Eternity has hands to carry.
Destiny has wings to rise.
Mankind has feet to wander.
Nature has hands to carry.
The universe has wings to rise.”
“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.”
Source: The Secret Chord
“Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.”
“Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)
“Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.”
“Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The 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.”
“Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.”
“Curiosity invites us to move with life’s harmonious dance and to remember that we, too, are an essential part of Life’s sacred rhythm.”
Source: Quiet the Itty Bitty Shitty Committee: Five Self-Love Tools to Silence Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Worth
“Curiosity is a call from knowledge.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.”
“Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.”
“Curiosity is a good thing, I think. It helps you get to know someone or a situation and assesses with making the best decision about it.”
Source: Replay: Tiptoe
“Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.”
Source: Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper
“Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.”
“Curiosity is a key building block. The more curious you are, the more creativity you will unleash. A great way to do that is to ask the three "magic questions" again and again... those questions are simply, "Why", "What if?", and "Why not?". Asking these questions constantly focused you on the possibilities and away from how things are at the moment.”
“Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.”
Source: Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
“Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.”
“Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.”
“Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.”
“Curiosity is a student.
Patience is a saint.
Experience is a shelter.
Intuition is a sage.
Intelligence is a student.
Prudence is a saint.
Understanding is a shelter.
Wisdom is a sage.
Awareness is a student.
Goodness is a saint.
Discernment is a shelter.
Virtue is a sage.
Humility is a student.
Faith is a saint.
Joy is a shelter.
Love is a sage.
The mind is a student.
The heart is a saint.
The body is a shelter.
The soul is a sage.
Life is a student.
Truth is a saint.
Fate is a shelter.
Immortality is a sage.
Today is a student.
Yesterday is a saint.
Tomorrow is a shelter.
Eternity is a sage.
Mankind is a student.
Nature is a saint.
The universe is a shelter.
God is a sage.”
“Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume.”
Source: Time Slipping
“Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.”
Source: The Waking Fire
“Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.”
“Curiosity is an engine of life that adds light and warmth to the everyday hustle, and questions are a spark needed to start it.”
“Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.”
“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
“Curiosity is celestial sensation.”
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.”
“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.”
“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
Source: The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo
“Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.”
“Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.”
Source: The Mind in the Making
“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
“Curiosity is its own reason.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Curiosity is its own suicide.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Curiosity is like a mirror that gets cleaned of its dust and tarnish with every practice, reflecting your being more and more accurately.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.”
“Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.”
“Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction