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Curiosity Quotes
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
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"Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions."
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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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"Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."
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"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh."
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"Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications."
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"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
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"Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages."Why don't we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens? he said.And Ridcully responded with the traditional response."It's got to be worth a try, he said."
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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
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"It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a stone. "Is it? Why?" asked Rincewind. How does he hold himself together, his mind screamed at him. Why doesn't he spill?"
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"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated."
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"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
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"If your curiosity reaches a breaking point (compelled actually means that you only have the remaining choice to act on it, having tried all the other options before), and becomes fascination with mystery or truth, you find what you need. Maybe it's a person, maybe it's a tragedy, maybe it's an explosive recognition that, "My God, I'm still alive."
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"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."
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"Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question."
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"Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware."
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"The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played with silly putty like the other kids. The first time he lost his eyebrows he was only five."
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"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
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"Curiosity is a descending stair that leads to only who-knows-where."
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"But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most."
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"I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens."
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"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
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"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
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"The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual."
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"Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?"
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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
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