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Curiosity Quotes by Edith Wharton
- One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
- Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on…
- Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one…
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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
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on… — Franklin P. Adams
- What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not… — Bruce Barton
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison
- When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck
- In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. — Robert Benchley
- Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to… — Isaiah Berlin
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular… — Andrea Bocelli
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke