"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."

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"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."

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

Samuel Johnson, English 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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"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

Curiosity, Reading, Wonder, Books

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

William Arthur Ward, American Writer

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"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world."

Vincent Canby, American Critic

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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

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"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world."

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"Reason is the servant of instinct."

"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."

"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health."

"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."

"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."

"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."

"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."