Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Curiosity is the main energy.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

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.

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.