"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

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"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned-in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Curiosity, boldness, and persistence help you to be a success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Never lose your curious mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

William Arthur Ward, American Writer

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"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

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"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

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"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."

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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

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"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned-in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"

"Curiosity, boldness, and persistence help you to be a success."

"Never lose your curious mind."

"Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?"

"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

"If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!"

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."

"There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of."

"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."

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"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."