"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."

Curiosity, Business, Bees, Labor

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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."

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"Never lose your curious mind."

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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."

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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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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."

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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."

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"But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"Curiosity killed the cat, Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying, she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back."

Tamora Pierce, American Author

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"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."

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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

Fear

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

Forgiveness

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Morality

"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."

Criticism

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

Character

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

Contentment

"He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind."

Power

"Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand."

Wisdom

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"

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