"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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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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