Curiosity Quotes - Page 6

• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  Walt Disney

  Trust, Dream, True Friend

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
  [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

  Horace

  Talkers, Inquisitive, Persons

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• Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Men, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.119

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• Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Running, Three, Interest

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• I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

  Hilarie Burton

  Moving, Two, Different

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Mar 02, 2016

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Religious, Thought Provoking, Wish

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

  Freya Stark

  Invincible, One Thing

  Freya Stark (1977). “Bridge of the Levant 1940-43”

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• The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

  Anatole France

  Men, Heartache, Greatest Love

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• But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wall, Heart, Garden

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Intellectual, Secret, Life Is

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• So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

  Goldie Hawn

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Important

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

  Penelope Lively

  Knows, Getting To Know Someone

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• Love is three quarters curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Romance, Three

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• Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

  Paul Berg

  Aerospace, Important, Realizing

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• I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

  Paul Nurse

  Thinking, World, Natural

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• There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

  Claire Danes

  People, Actors, Uncomfortable

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• I have an inate curiosity about people.

  Martin Bashir

  People

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• Be curious, not judgmental.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Meaningful, Judging

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

  Edmund Burke

  Anxiety, Affection, Appearance

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24

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• One cannot help but be in awe when
  [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
  of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Mind, Four

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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