Curiosity Quotes
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Wisdom. No match for the troublemaker Curiosity.
David Brin
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From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.
Colin Farrell
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People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
W. Edwards Deming
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There can be no growth without curiosity and no adaptability without being able to explore, through trial and error, who you are and what matters to you.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.
Walt Disney
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
Petrarch
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I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
Ben Schott
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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
Angela Duckworth
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
Saint Augustine
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I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.
Scott Turow
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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Mary Leakey
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
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Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
John Bytheway
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Albert Einstein
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
Plutarch
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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Paul Berg
