Curiosity Quotes - Page 7

• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

  Brooke Astor

  Thinking, People, Getting Older

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

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• If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

  Erno Rubik

  Determined, Curious, Solve

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• The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

  Ian Mcewan

  World, Might, Moments

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• We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Games, Usual, Scientist

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Giving Up, Imagination

  The Politics of Experience Ch. 3

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• Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

  Petrarch

  Departure, World, This World

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Stupid, People

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

  Elvis Costello

  Passion, Ideas, New Ideas

  "Elvis Costello: Interview And Music". Interview with Brian Wise, Ocober 4, 2004.

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• As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

  Yehuda Berg

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• They know enough who know how to learn.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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• What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

  Bruce Barton

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Men

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

  Elvis Costello

  Believe, Passion, Marketing

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• Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

  Richard Dawkins

  Spring, World, Bed

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Secret, Indifference

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Two, Despair

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• In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

  Michael N. Nagler

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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  My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Education, Book

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Exercise, Inspirational Harry Potter, Potters

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Confidence, Believe

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• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

  Walter Pater

  New Beginnings, Science, Forever

  Walter Pater, Donald L. Hill (1980). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry : the 1893 Text”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

  Robert Browning

  Eden, Apples, Adam And Eve

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.741, Pearson Education

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• If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  Aaron Klug

  Powerful, Struggle, Secret

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