Curiosity Quote by Lucy Poate Stebbins Download Open image “Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.” — Lucy Poate Stebbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Novelists Prime
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression? — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry. — Lucy Poate Stebbins Copy Share Image
The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing. — Lucy Poate Stebbins 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… — John Newton Copy Share Image
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… — Alan W. Watts 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.… — 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
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