Quotes with curiosity

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  • William Arthur Ward Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Samuel Johnson Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Steven Wright Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • James Stephens Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dorothy Parker Four be the things I'd better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
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    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Aaron Klug Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bernard Beckett Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Jonathan Miller I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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