Curiosity Quotes
1094 quotes by 811 authors
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
— David Attenborough
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left…
— Russell Baker
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
— Franklin P. Adams
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little…
— Bruce Barton
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and…
— Joseph Addison
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When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
— Martha Beck
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
— Robert Benchley
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
— Edmund Burke
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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
— Leo Burnett
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
— John Burroughs
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I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.
— George H. W. Bush
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're…
— A. S. Byatt
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
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Love is three quarters curiosity.
— Giacomo Casanova
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
— Kim Cattrall
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The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of…
— Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
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