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Curiosity Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
- You know what a woman's curiosity is.
- It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
- His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do…
- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
- I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple…
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
More Curiosity Quotes
- 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