"The search for truth is more precious than…" — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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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… — David Attenborough
• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,… — 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… — Franklin P. Adams
• What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who… — Bruce Barton
• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — 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… — Isaiah Berlin
• Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed… — Ambrose Bierce
• Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

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