Curiosity Quotes
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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
David Hare
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'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
Studs Terkel
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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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What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
Louie Schwartzberg
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Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.
Brian Grazer
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I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.
Anne Sweeney
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
John Cage
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
Charles Darwin
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For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.
David Hoffman
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I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
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I have an inate curiosity about people.
Martin Bashir
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In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.
Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
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Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
John Locke Nazareth
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My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
Mario Testino
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As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
John Burnside
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Bryan Magee
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Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
James Mirrlees
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
William Godwin
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I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
Eric Betzig
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Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
Janet Mock
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Caroline Kennedy