Advantage Quote by Albert Pike

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In reality, the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what…

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the…

— Samuel Johnson

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their…

— Norm MacDonald

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one…

— Ambrose Bierce

There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a…

— Oscar Wilde

“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in…

— Thomas Paine

“He was blessed with the sort of intense curiosity that most of us experience so infrequently it often seems to come as a surprise.…

— Miles Harvey

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

— Anatole France

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals…

— Friedrich Nietzsche