Curiosities Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. — John Dewey
It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our… — Harry S. Truman
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within.… — Ramana Maharshi
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! — John Aubrey
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in… — Michael Koryta
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,… — Oliver Lodge
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such… — Frederick Seitz
O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources… — Charles Spurgeon
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities… — Jeff Belanger
Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390 and the Cook MS of… — John Hamill
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. — Elvis Costello
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. — Thomas Sowell
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know. — Susanna Clarke
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries,… — Ray Bradbury
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate… — Robertson Davies

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