Curiosity Quotes - Page 23

• Curiosity is its own suicide.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Suicide

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.179

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• Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

  Chip R. Bell

  Listening, Marketing, Fuel

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.69, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Stars

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• This thing called curiosity... it's a scary thing.

  Jo Min-Hyuk

  Drama, Scary, Scary Things

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• Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

  Edmund Morgan

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Effort, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.369

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• Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophy, Issues, Interesting

  "African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations". Book by George Yancy, p. 35, 1998.

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• Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

  Will Durant

  Teacher, Garden, Harmony

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• Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health.

  Gary Zukav

  Spring, Dark, Shining

  "Gary Zukav On Spiritual Spring Cleaning" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

  Mason Cooley

  Rose, Suspense, Rising

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• I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

  Deborah Meier

  Giving Up, Fun, Differences

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• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Thinking

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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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

  Eggs, Common Sense, Greed

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• Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mask, Cholera

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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

  Jobs, Ideas, People

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• I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

  Anne Sweeney

  Careers, Titles, Want

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• I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

  Marc Maron

  Bullshit, Fascination, Fiction

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Acting, Kind, Dormant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought you could learn from. And when you actually step into the room with a lot of people who have an education in a classroom, that is very similar to other people's educations, you'll actually come with a unique perspective that could be a valuable perspective that creates an innovation that could change the world.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Unique, People, Perspective

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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

  Kids, People, Goal

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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

  Years, Easier, Dare

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.co.uk

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• Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Path, Curious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.

  Assata Shakur

  Survival, Different, World

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• My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from outside, and if you look at it then it will mean nothing. So, I have to pretend it's more than that. Horror writing lets me do that.

  Tony Burgess

  Writing, Mean, Peculiar

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