"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." — Vladimir Nabokov

"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."

— Vladimir Nabokov

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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times…
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
The tiny madman in his padded cell.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and…
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink…
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it…
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of…
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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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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