The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“...a truly great person has a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it, an interest that encompasses everything and… — Marcia Tucker Copy Share Image
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books. I like Asimov's… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social… — Marian Deegan Copy Share Image
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
“Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn… you weren’t bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage…… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
“Who knows what adventure we might find here?" Drizzt said excitedly. "Who knows what secrets might be unveiled to us?" "Adventure?" Dunkin… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
'Vogue' and 'Vice' may appear to some to see the world through different lenses. But in my view, both are fearless and… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
What are the lessons learned? Well, I think number one is curiosity. It's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than… — Beverly LaHaye Copy Share Image
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts...… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity… — Michael Reisman Copy Share Image
“She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's a little truth behind every just Just kidding a little curiosity behind Just wondering and a little knowledge behind I don't… — Simpleman Copy Share Image
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be… — Tony Moyle Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“hall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image