Curiosity Quotes
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Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.
Orville Wright
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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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Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
John Bytheway
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The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.
Walt Disney
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Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps
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Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
Martin Bashir
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I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.
Elayne Boosler
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I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
James Kirkwood
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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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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
E. M. Forster
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
G. H. Hardy
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The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
Juan Enriquez
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Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
William Thurston
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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
Jenna Wortham
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I had a healthy curiosity and would try things on - play lots of practical jokes. But it was more in my head - fantasies of "What would happen if...? Like what would happen in class if you took all your clothes off and you ran around the room?
Andy Griffiths
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People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different.
Shakira
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It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.
Deborah Meier
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All animals feel Wonder, and many exhibit Curiosity. They sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them.
Charles Darwin
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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
Anne Sweeney