Curiosity Quotes
1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors
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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a…
— William Shatner
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director…
— Simon Sinek
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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
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
— Freya Stark
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted…
— Taylor Swift
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You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
— Nikola Tesla
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I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I…
— Clyde Tombaugh
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
— Mark Twain
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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance…
— Kate Walsh
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
— William Arthur Ward
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
— Evelyn Waugh
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline...…
— Vivienne Westwood
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What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
— James Wolcott
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
— Steven Wright
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Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
— Philip Zimbardo
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Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
— Richard P. Feynman
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What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or…
— Julian Barnes
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
— Dorothy Parker
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At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates…
— Philip Pullman
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