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Curiosity Quotes
"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
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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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"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing."
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"Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday."
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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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"Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance."
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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 the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom."
8
"Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one."
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"Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit."
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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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"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."
7
"Curiosity is a descending stair that leads to only who-knows-where."
7
"I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity."
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"Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream."
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"I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity."
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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."
5
"When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!"
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"I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900."
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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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"Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science."
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"Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom."
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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."
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"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
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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."
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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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"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."
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"Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you a wonder! Just ponder and take action in the right direction, and you shall surely be a wonder!"
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"All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent."
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"Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions."
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