"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

Curiosity, Emotion, First, Mind

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"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

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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

Curiosity, Persistence, Boldness, Success

"Never lose your curious mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Curiosity, Mind, Learning, Growth

"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

"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

"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

Curiosity, Journalism, Importance, Knowledge

"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

Curiosity, Desire, Interest, May

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Edmund Burke

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

Education

"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."

Ethics

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

Religion

"War never leaves where it found a nation."

Society

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

Wisdom

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."

Society

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

People

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

Motivation

"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."

Resilience

"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."

Law