Quotes with curiosity

  • The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
  • My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
  • A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
  • I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.
  • Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
  • I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
  • Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Walt Disney We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Graham Greene Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Marie Carmichael Stopes An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
    Marie Carmichael Stopes
     
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  • Aldous Huxley Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Clarence Day Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Alistair Cooke Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Abraham Cowley Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Richard Whately Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Alistair Cooke Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • E. M. Forster Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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