Quotes with curious

  • What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
  • Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
  • 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.
  • It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
  • Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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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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  • Oswald Chambers A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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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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  • Ben Jonson A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
    Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English gramma
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Walt Whitman Be curious, not judgmental.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Agatha Christie Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bill Medley Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Carl Sagan For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Sir Hugh Walpole Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
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  • Oscar Wilde He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
    Alfred Day Hershey
     
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  • Albert Einstein I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
    Colin Wilson - New Pathways in Psychology
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Alex Trebek I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Alice Walker I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm just curious.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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