Curious Quotes

911 Curious quotes by 707 unique authors

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. — Josef Albers
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen. — Elizabeth Lesser
The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of… — Jan Smuts
I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work.… — Fatima Siad
It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them.… — D.E. Stevenson
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below… — Peter J. Carroll
Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike… — Jacqueline Novogratz
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious… — Peter Greenaway
Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a… — Rob Brezsny
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what… — David Brin
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only… — Nelson Mandela
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. — Henry David Thoreau
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Miloâ€™s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to… — Michael Chabon
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a… — Joseph Campbell
Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness… — Pema Chodron
A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. — Jacques Monod
You can take the girl out of the library, but you canâ€™t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. — Molly Harper
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a… — Rodney Yee

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