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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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"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."
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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
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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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"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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"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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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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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
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"The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated."
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"Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?"
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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
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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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"The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual."
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"I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity."
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"He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore."
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"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing."
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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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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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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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"I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences."
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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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"I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious."
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"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
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"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."
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"The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers."
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