"Remember Lot's wife." - BIBLE, Luke 17:32

"Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand." - BIBLE, Ecclesiasticus, 3:23

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler

"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling." - BLAISE PASCAL, Pensées

"Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance." - S. LEONARD RUBINSTEIN, quoted in Reader's Digest

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." - JAMES STEPHENS, The Crock of Gold

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization." - G.M. TREVELYAN, English Social History