Curiosity Quote by Philip Sidney Download Open image “Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.” — Philip Sidney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Guests
An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked -… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to… — Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg Copy Share Image
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney 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