Curiosity Quotes
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of ...
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
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Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; f...
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A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.
No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at...
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A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and ...
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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
Show MoreCuriosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, ...
Show MoreI was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...
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She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half fe...
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He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this c...
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We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands in...
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At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a cur...
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All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppr...
Show MorePeople like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap f...
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We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hi...
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Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readines...
Show MoreI am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than underst...
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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into ...
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Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. ...
Show MoreThese are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...
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A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...
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I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil ...
Show MoreAsk me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to c...
Show MoreI was on the shy side at school (one school report called me ‘diffident’) and Braefield had added a ...
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Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among sol...
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You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people w...
Show MoreWho knows what adventure we might find here?" Drizzt said excitedly. "Who knows what secrets might b...
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impression...
Show MoreSo blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along ...
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No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fru...
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More depended on the student than on the school.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or an...
Show MoreCuriosity is the main energy...
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with ...
Show MoreHow quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," abou...
Show MoreSocrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, mor...
Show MoreThese are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's ...
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investi...
Show MoreCuriosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is ...
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by ...
Show MoreCuriosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...
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I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...
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there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone sho...
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
Show MoreThe generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...
Show MoreBut we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do no...
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...
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Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.Aly rolled her eyes. Why did ev...
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That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts ...
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To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess th...
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Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles al...
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Not every story started off big enough to notice.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the conse...
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It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable cur...
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I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yo...
Show MoreA monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own c...
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young gene...
Show MoreThe world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and se...
Show MoreAlways in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
Show MoreBut something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...
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Editors are licensed to be curious.
I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to sh...
Show MoreHenry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...
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Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting...
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I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to...
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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of t...
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I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes t...
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What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's go...
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China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a...
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