Curiosity Quotes - Page 2

• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

  Richard Whately

  Memories, Parent, Attention

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  Edmund Burke

  Emotional, Mind, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Men, People, Desire

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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

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wings, Add, Steps

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• Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

  Alistair Cooke

  Intelligence, Wheeling

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• When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Research, Matter, Serious

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Vision, Purpose

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

  Steven Wright

  Sarcastic, Cat, Sarcasm

  "I Have A Pony". Comedy album by Steven Wright, 1985.

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• Curiosity must be kept alive.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational Life, Alive

  The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt preface (1961)

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• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  Samuel Alexander

  Analysis, Pieces

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• People die when curiosity goes.

  Graham Swift

  People, Intellectual Curiosity, Dies

  1983 Waterland, ch.27.

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• Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Appreciate, Promise, Important

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• It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Conquer, One Thing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

  Rachel McAdams

  Certain

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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  Abraham Maslow

  Insanity, Insane, Self Actualization

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson (p.155-156), 1972.

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Holy, Questioning

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• Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Enjoy Life, Loner

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

  Alistair Cooke

  Spring, People, Generosity

  "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.

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