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A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander PopeCuriosity - 3
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
Luis BuñuelCuriosity - 4
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard WhatelyCuriosity -
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCuriosity - 7
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
J. K. RowlingCuriosity - 8
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor HugoCuriosity - 9
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.
E. M. ForsterCuriosity - 10
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel JohnsonCuriosity - 11
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
Jeremy TaylorCuriosity - 12
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas HobbesCuriosity - 13
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel JohnsonCuriosity - 14
Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Thomas HobbesCuriosity - 15
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthyCuriosity -
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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.
Eleanor RooseveltCuriosity - 17
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
CiceroCuriosity - 18
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert EinsteinCuriosity - 19
That low vice, curiosity!
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron ByronCuriosity - 20
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur SchopenhauerCuriosity - 21
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeCuriosity - 22
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert EinsteinCuriosity - 23
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole FranceCuriosity - 24
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
Robert BrowningCuriosity - 25
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives
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