Curiosity Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Gossip Novelty
“As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“People feel disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The fact is, we in this society are often quite removed from our own emotional reality.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The patient is surprised by feelings she would rather not have recognized, but now it is too late: Awareness of her own impulses has… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.” — Rita Golden Gelman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life, you just feel things that make no sense, but they are there, down to the bone, unavoidable, undeniable.” — Jessica Gadziala Copy Share Image
“We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all… — John Newton Copy Share
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not looking for a verbal answer, just as when I ask for a kiss, I do not want a piece of paper with "A kiss" written on it. It is rather that metaphysical wonder looks for an… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f46/h-l-mencken-245_absolutely-nothing_by-profession-a-biologist-thomas-henry-h_5368.jpg)
