Curiosity Quotes - Page 37

• My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Passion, Religion

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Sex, Children, School

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• Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

  Art Linkletter

  Life, Fun, Accomplishment

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• How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Vegetarianism, Use

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.46

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• Curiosity fed the dog.

  Wes Fesler

  Dog, Feds

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• Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

  Wes Fesler

  Untamed, Quests

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• Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

  Pema Chodron

  Meditation Practice, Trying, Befriending

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.

  Phil Cousineau

  Moving, Heart, Essence

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• I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for your job, whether you photograph on the weekends or everyday or once in a while, the main point is having fun and to be exercising your curiosity and to be really in love with what you are doing.

  Steve McCurry

  Photography, Jobs, Fun

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• That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Photography, Character, Men

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, transl. by T. Bailey Saunders , Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 1851.

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• My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Adventure, Goal, Intellectual

  "The “world’s most wanted hacker,” Kevin Mitnick, has gone straight (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. October 21, 2011.

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• The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Cat, Would Be, Bags

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

  Beryl Markham

  Hard, Unsatisfied

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• Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

  Biz Stone

  Running, Creativity, Creative

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Desire, Might

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.222, New Directions Publishing

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• Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Francoise Sagan

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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• The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Adventure, Land, Risk

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

  Mario Testino

  Opportunity, Possibility, Curious

  "Mario Testino interview: the man who makes models super". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

  Charlie Munger

  Reading, Self, Littles

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• I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

  Scott Turow

  Thinking, Offering, Library

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• One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.

  Pico Iyer

  Eden, Purgatory, Foreigners

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.185, Vintage

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• Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sex, Opposites, Feelings

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• The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

  Frans de Waal

  Reflection, Enemy, Dogma

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Degrees, Novelty

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