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• At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Thinking, Men

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• The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

  Jean Dieudonne

  Teaching, Passion, Math

  Underwood Dudley, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Nathan Altshiller-Court, John Aubry, Girolamo Cardano (2008). “Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany”, The Mathematical Association of America

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• My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Advice, Photographer

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• Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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• But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Moving, Thoughtful

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• We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Nature, Memories

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.176, Diversion Books

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• Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

  Anatole France

  Teaching, Fire, Vanity

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• As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Matter

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.135, MIT Press

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• Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

  George Crabbe

  Truth, Done, Tests

  'The Borough' (1810) Letter 3 'The Vicar' l. 138

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• Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

  Uta Hagen

  Women, Moving, Taken

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mother, Children, Crazy

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

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• It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Glasses, Expression, America

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1966). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Ends, Love Is

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

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• Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Suffering, May

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• The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Determination, Men, Views

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  One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Life And Death, Intellectual, Alive

  A Backward Glance "A First Word" (1934)

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• From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

  George Lucas

  Teacher, College, Impact

  "Celebrating Unsung Heroes in Education" by George Lucas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Talent, Inquisitive, Particular

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• Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.

  Roger Schank

  Thinking, Important, That One Person

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• People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

  Tharman Shanmugaratnam

  People, Want, Information

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• That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Book, Library, Want

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• It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.

  Susan Patron

  Waiting, Stronger, Way

  Susan Patron, Erin McGuire (2012). “Lucky for Good”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Stories, Sparks

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• This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Moon, Men

  Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.32, A&C Black

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• My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

  Studs Terkel

  Cat, Epitaph

  "Studs Terkel, voice of America's uncelebrated, dies aged 96" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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