"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

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

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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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

Curiosity, Inquiry, Freedom, Education

"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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"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

Curiosity, Sex, Youth, Experience

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."

John Green, American Author

Curiosity, Reading, Learning, Memory

"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Curiosity, Imagination, Knowledge, Study

"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet-that's not a problem. The problem is that I just can't live anywhere on the planet."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."

"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

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"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

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"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."

"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."