Curiosity Quotes
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke
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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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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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Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
John Hurt
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You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.
Carrie Brownstein
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
William Winwood Reade
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I try to be led by my curiosity.
Lynn Nottage
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People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
Nikki Gemmell
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Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Steve Jobs
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Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.
Benn Northover
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Bill Smith
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Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.
Mickey Drexler
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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.
Diane Ackerman
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
Victor Hugo
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What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
James Wolcott
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There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
Jim Elliot
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What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
Brian Koppelman
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Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.
Steven Chu
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These had the colourless triteness of a story retold a hundred times. I longed for something new, something that would gratify curiosity and excite surprise.
Edmund Gosse
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I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.
Lee Radziwill
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I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart. It was born in me. Not everybody is like that, but a scientific researchist should be. Any fool can show me an experiment is useless. I want a man who will try it and get something out of it.
Willis R. Whitney