C Quotes
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“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.”
Source: Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky. (Seventh thousand.) [With plates.]
“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.”
“Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.”
“Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.”
“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”
Source: Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel
“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.”
“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.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.”
“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
“Curiosity is one of the pedals of the evolution bike! Curious human or curious animal climb up the stairs of evolution faster!”
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.”
Source: Life and Writings
“Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives”
Source: Scientific Advertising Origins
“Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.”
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.”
Source: High spirits
“Curiosity is sacred. But so is stillness. Peace often comes not from understanding but from letting go of the need to understand.”
Source: In the Quiet - On Logic, Spirit, and the Discipline of Living Without Certainty: Agnosticism, Deism, Stoicism and the Spiritual Discipline
“Curiosity is straight fire for creativity. By exploring, you bring insights and inspiration to imagination.”
“Curiosity is the art of creativity.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.”
“curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.”
“Curiosity is the courage to seek to know.”
“Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.”
Source: Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers: Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian...
“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”
“Curiosity is the engine of civilisation”
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.”
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence.”
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?' I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.”
“Curiosity is the essence of our existence.”
“Curiosity is the flame that kindles the fire of knowing, and together, they illuminate the path to understanding.”
“Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.”
Source: The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment
“Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.”
Source: Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth
“Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.”
“Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.”
Source: The Price of Loyalty
“Curiosity is the key to creativity.”
“Curiosity is the lifeblood of science.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Curiosity is the lifeblood of science, not constant boasting of lifeless facts.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
“Curiosity is the main energy.”
“Curiosity is the mind's libido, a craving for the unknown; and learning is the final climax, the orgasm of acquiring new knowledge.”
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.”
“Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.”
“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
Source: Bridge of the Levant 1940-43
“Curiosity is the only courage there is.”
“Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
“Curiosity is the other side of caution.”
Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior