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“Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.”

Men Asks Curiosity Curious Instruction

Author:Pasquier Quesnel

“the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”

Thinking Ends Would Be Wish Possibility Discovery Curiosity Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Joyce

Source: Joyce

“Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Curiosity Hunger Human Mind

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.”

Art Strong Emotion Curiosity Cups Great Art

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Curiosity is the other side of caution.”

Sides Curiosity Caution

Book:Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

“It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.”

Mean Littles God Names Language Known Curiosity Jehovah Counterparts

Book:Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.”

Long Made Two Age Poor Player Greatness Son Curiosity Vain Sand Tides Long Ago Asia Greece Rivals Footprint Passed Away Athens Avon

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.”

“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Stills Ends Problem Artist Space Creativity Inspire Painting Source West Curiosity East Painter Plenty Unexplored

Author:Guity Novin

“Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.”

Ifs Desire Born Intellectual Curiosity Illness Cures Mastery Intellectual Curiosity

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.”

People Want Mean Important Acting Known Mystery Keys Clothes Curiosity Shoes Curious

Author:Meryl Streep

“Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.”

Humans Understanding Imagination Race Curiosity Human Race Rays Contributing Bradbury

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often somewhat narrow: our class, our race, our gender, where we grew up, what geography we were exposed to. The curiosity and wonderment of, "What it's like on your path?" - that's when you go into high alert.”

Born Race Class Path Grew Grew Up Curiosity Gender Acknowledge Exposed Geography

Author:Debra Granik

“Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.”

People Knows Sometimes Can Do Brain Wonder Comedy Groups Special Curiosity Fortitude Sometimes I Wonder Ethnic Groups

Author:Debra Granik

“One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.”

People Would Be Culture Virtue Curiosity Other Cultures

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”

Believe Self Reason Fall I Believe Causes Successful Ambition Determination Curiosity Technological Self Destruct

Author:Pete Seeger

“There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.”

Curiosity Unsatisfied

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.”

Littles House Streets Wind Mountain Curiosity Ran Deserted Canals Wooden House

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.”

May Two Left Hell Growing Mystery Particular Hair Intellectual Expectations Curiosity Rage Pursuit Pursue Broke Grades Infinity Phases Fifth Girlhood Fifth Grade Societal Expectations

Author:Alice Kahn

“All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.”

Thinking Children Adults Curiosity Curious

Author:Anne Roe

“Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.”

Children Important Self Facts School Three Asks Subjects Ignorance Curiosity Protection Grades Unfortunate Toddler Self Protection

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.”

Next Language My Own Numbers Strange Travel Towns Tables Surprise Curiosity Come Up Melody Impatience Anticipate Gaming New Places

Book:A Fine of 200 Francs

Source: A Fine of 200 Francs

“My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.”

People Courses Individual Silent Curiosity Details Curious Enjoyed Grandmother My Grandmother Reserved Jolly Talkative Personal Question

Book:So Laugh A Little

Source: So Laugh A Little

“The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.”

Whole Natural Plans Curiosity Potatoes Natural Curiosity

Book:The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Source: The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

“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.”

Knows Want Humans Answers Existence Essence Curiosity Corners Human Existence Around The Corner

Author:Gene Cernan

“I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.”

Two Different Moving Months Curiosity Different Place Gypsy

Author:Hilarie Burton

“Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.”

Wells Energy Language Study Alive Advice Draws Scientist Curiosity Boring Math Flames Nourishment Exam

Author:Michio Kaku

“I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.”

Thinking Children Persons Life Is Imagination Curiosity Mixtures

Author:Daphne Guinness

“As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.”

World Jobs Grows Half Growing Wonderful Dad Curiosity My Dad Other Half

Author:Apolo Ohno

“There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.”

Actors Strong Half Curiosity Witness Inclination Shortcomings Malicious Novices

Book:Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage

Source: Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage

“Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.”

Curiosity Novelists Prime

Author:Lucy Poate Stebbins

“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source: The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

“This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.”

Law Courses History Events Objects Reader Battle Importance Court Curiosity Variety Manners Narrative Intrigue Roman Empire Transient Interruptions Insensible

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.”

Eye Christian Wonder History Mystery Worship Curiosity Stranger Awful Affected Secrecy Concealed Christian Faith Roman Empire

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.”

Children Causes Behinds Education Development India Curiosity Incidents

Author:Narendra Modi

“Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.”

Fun Process Natural Method Curiosity Investigating Posing Delving Natural Curiosity

Author:Sally Ride

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”

Enough Dark Knowing Ignorance Curiosity Not Knowing

Author:Alain de Botton

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.”

Artist Risk Intellectual Inspired Curiosity Musical Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Renee Fleming

“Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?”

Should Government Intellectual Curiosity Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.”

Opinion One Thing Curiosity Valuable

Author:David Hare

“I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.”

People Wanted Curiosity Kicks Superpower Notches

Author:Brian Grazer

“Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.”

Want Today Wonder Cases Gone Tomorrow Curiosity Flames Awe Deep Down Dormant

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.”

Important Loses Holy Important Things Curiosity Questioning

Author:Albert Einstein

“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'”

People Knows Has Beens Made Problem Inspiration Jobs Artist Certain Born Imagination Groups Poet Calling Difficulty Curiosity Privilege Solve Chosen Exclusive Setback Swarms

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.”

People Way Giving Creativity Environment Curiosity Injection

Author:Ken Robinson

“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Thinking Humans Heart Interest Human Beings Keys Fellows Medicine Patient Curiosity Endeavor Physicians Limitless Good Science

Author:Abraham Verghese

“As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.”

Looks Used Wonder Mad Filled Curiosity Terror Parks Fascinated

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.”

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”

Knows Feels Desire Ignorance Higher Curiosity Ignorant Pursue Burning Vow Solemn

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky