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

Curiosity, Passion, Truth, Mind

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

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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

Curiosity, Life, Books, Existence

"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

Curiosity, Logic, Absurdity, Observation

"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

Curiosity, Grace, Vanity, Woman

"The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers."

Bryan Magee, British 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

Curiosity, Learning

"Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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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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Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson

"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

Faith

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

Mortality

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

Literature

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

Travel

"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Society

"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

Emotion

"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

Travel

"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."

Relationship

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

Friendship

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Hope