Quotes with curiosity

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  • Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Anatole France The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • William Winwood Reade The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Oscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Vance Palmer The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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  • Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde You know what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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