Curiosity Quotes - Page 27

• I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that's out there, now and looking at scripts in the world and seeing if something that already exists can spark my interest and my curiosity.

  Todd Haynes

  Dog, World, Littles

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• In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

  E. B. White

  Book, Writing, Order

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton, Frank Crowther in Paris Review, 1969.

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• A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Lying, Book, Would Be

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Real, Matter, Importance

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. V), 1916.

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• It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Taught

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.esquire.com. 1961.

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• Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Shows

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, 152, 1669.

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• The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Helping, Christ, Conform

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.12, Moody Publishers

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• For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

  Pierre Boulez

  Coffins, Curious, Ifs

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• We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Kids, Adventure, Order

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• Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Giving, Intense, Should

  "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, 1928.

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• Curiosity is the engine of civilisation

  Peter Cundill

  Civilisation, Engines

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• I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Together Again, Trying, World

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• Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

  John Updike

  Thinking, Trying, Needs

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• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Reality, People, Expectations

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 19, 1647.

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• My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

  Brian Grazer

  Real, Creative, Events

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Moving, Heart, Study

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• On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.

  Joe Queenan

  Baby, Memorable, Past

  "Proles in a pickle" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.

  Joe Queenan

  New York, America, Interesting

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• God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

  J. I. Packer

  Answers, Scripture, Doe

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

  Discovery, Imagination, Interesting

  "Science in Progress", Sixth Series, edited by George A. Baitsell, 1949.

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• The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Europe, Enemy

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as obstacles that interpose to prevent them from indulging in the gratification of their desires. Of this the Legislators and Hierophants took advantage, to attract the people to their sanctuaries, and to induce them to seek to obtain lessons from which they would perhaps have turned away with indifference if they had been pressed upon them.

  Albert Pike

  Men, People, Desire

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

  Warren Buffett

  Littles, Strive, Wiser

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• You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Needs, Long Time

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