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Curiosity Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
- In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
- The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity
- Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever…
- The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
- Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
- Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
- Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good…
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock…
- The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of…
- A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm…
- The sun shines and warms and light us, and we do no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of…
- The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man…
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