The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

That low vice, curiosity!

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

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

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie.