Curiosity Quotes - Page 20

• I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

  Pete Seeger

  Determination, Believe, Fall

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• There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Unsatisfied

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• Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Wind, House, Mountain

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

  Alice Kahn

  Hair, Two, Expectations

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• All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

  Anne Roe

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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• I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

  Elsa Triolet

  Travel, Numbers, Tables

  Elsa Triolet (1947). “A Fine of 200 Francs”

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• Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  People, Attractive, Inquisitive

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• My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

  Molly Picon

  Grandmother, People, Personal Question

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Potatoes, Natural, Plans

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?' I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

  Gene Cernan

  Essence, Answers, Want

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• Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

  Michio Kaku

  Math, Flames, Advice

  "String Theory Genius Explains The Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change Life As We Know It". Reddit AMA, www.businessinsider.in. March 10, 2014.

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• As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

  Apolo Ohno

  Jobs, Dad, Half

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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

  Strong, Actors, Novices

  Anna Cora Mowatt, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854). “Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage”, p.220

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• Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

  Lucy Poate Stebbins

  Novelists, Prime

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• One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.

  Matilde Serao

  Winning, Gambling, Challenges

  Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli

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• This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, History, Battle

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), William Smith (1872). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.197

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• The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Eye, History

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.881, e-artnow

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• The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Children, India

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• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  Sally Ride

  Fun, Natural, Posing

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• Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

  Alain de Botton

  Ignorance, Dark, Knowing

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• While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Writing

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

  Renee Fleming

  Artist, Risk, Intellectual

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• Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Intellectual, Should

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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

  Opinion, Valuable, One Thing

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