Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
People who have not seen me or don't know much about me are curious and that I don't mind that bit of… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The temptation To take the precious things we have apart To see how they work Must be resisted for they never fit… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
To make yourself a good scientist I would say first, you have to have curiosity. If you don't have any curiosity you… — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
“Movement. Action. Curiosity. Discovery. Sometimes being stuck means going deep and deep discoveries are made there, but sometimes stuck is just stuck… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“The nature of the mind is to acquire, to absorb, is it not? Or rather the pattern it has created for itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As Rockwell Kent said in his Alaskan journal, 'The wonder of wilderness was its tranquility.' I wish I had said that first.… — Jack Turner Copy Share Image
The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Kerala has always evoked the curiosity of the world at large. We have contributed immensely in enriching such ideals which an egalitarian… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the… — Michel de Montaigne 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
“Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious… — Peter Manseau Copy Share Image
“CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS, THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS AS… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“We are born free as creatures of bliss, compassion, friendliness, innocence and curiosity. Among us, there is a tremendous love and natural… — Georgi Y. Johnson Copy Share Image
In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic.… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
There is no shame in not knowing. It's curious that we spend more time congratulating those who have succeeded than encouraging those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“You know, people start things for different reasons. But ultimately it turns into pure passion and one becomes insatiate. There is no… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
![“Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.” quote by Charles Sanders Peirce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/61a/charles-sanders-peirce-5105_curiosity_theology-i-am-persuaded-derives-its-init_564614.jpg)
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