C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.”
“Curiosity is the root of invention.”
“Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer’s imagination.”
Source: Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions
“Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.”
Source: Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the magazine "Morbid Curiosity"
“Curiosity is the spark of discovery. Asking questions, challenging assumptions, and seeking knowledge expand horizons. Lifelong learning keeps the mind vibrant and open to new possibilities.”
“Curiosity is the starting point for great science.”
“Curiosity is the strongest wing that carries us beyond our fears.”
― Korkut Çetin, Kayıp Kedi Heykelinin Sırrı (The Secret of the Lost Cat Statue)”
Source: Kayıp Kedi Heykelinin Sırrı
“Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence”
“Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“Curiosity is the ultimate beauty of an adventurous mind.”
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
“Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.”
“Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.”
“Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.”
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his “clinical tales,” he begins his work as diagnostician and healer with the implicit question ‘What is it like to be you?”
Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn’t flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don’t require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Curiosity killed the cat. Trust me," he said, drawing out each word, "you don't want to find out what it could do to the pig.”
Source: Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
Source: Trickster's Duet
“Curiosity killed the cat.”
“Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.”
“Curiosity kills prejudice.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.”
“Curiosity makes loneliness.”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but ignorance will kill the fool.”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.”
Source: The Midnight Mayor
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.”
“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.”
“Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.”
Source: The Secret Keeper: A Novel
“Curiosity must be kept alive.”
“Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.”
Source: I Pose
“Curiosity opens doors. And intentionality helps you choose which ones matter.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"”
“Curiosity pulls people into the scam.”
“Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.”
“Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Curiosity sets no limits”
“Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.”
Source: Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eighth edition
“Curiosity spreads through networks. It amplifies through interaction, and it deepens through collective exploration.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.”
“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”
“Curiosity tends to diminish over time, so it's key to keep trying new things and learning new skills to grow personally and professionally. Bring back your childlike thirst for knowledge and become curious again.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Curiosity urges you on-driving force.”