Curiosity Quotes
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A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
Herodotus
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Curiosity killed the cat.
Eugene O'Neill
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
Ernest Dimnet
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The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
Willis R. Whitney
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.
Meredith Monk
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Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne
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The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.
Christopher Cokinos
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The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
Seth Godin
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If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
Bill Gates
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I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.
Heath Ledger
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris
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Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Willis R. Whitney
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What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
Nina Arianda
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While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.
Dawoud Bey
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
Helen Keller
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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
Sara Sheridan
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman
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Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Eugene O'Neill
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What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.
William Hazlitt