Curiosity Quotes
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I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.
Derek Walcott
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I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.
Brian Grazer
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What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that flickered out.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
Marianne Wiggins
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What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.
Eve Arnold
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There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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 think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
Carl Hart
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison
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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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I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.
Dario Robleto
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke
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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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I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
Andie MacDowell
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When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.
Ari Graynor
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The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
Lewis Tappan
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose Saramago
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Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.
Aimee Mullins
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What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.
Eve Arnold
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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
William Trevor
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Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.
James Mirrlees