Curiosity Quotes - Page 8

• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  Abraham Cowley

  Doe, Devotion, Pilgrim

  Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.413, Cambridge University Press

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• Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

  Walt Disney

  Moving Forward, Long, Creative

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hurt, Belief, Social Psychology

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

  Hector Babenco

  Emotional, People, Want

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• If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

  Diane Sawyer

  Cat, Curious, Journalist

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• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Truth, Precious Possessions, Statistics

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• If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

  Bill Gates

  Work, People, Giving

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• What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Men, Trying

  Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 1971.

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• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Inspiration, Learning

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• What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Believe, Two

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  I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Education, Learning

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

  Luis Bunuel

  Destiny, Fundamentals, Might

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

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• I keep six honest serving men.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Motivational, Men, Thought Provoking

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

  Carl Sagan

  Understanding, Kind, Ecstasy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Pain, Attitude

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• What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Successful, Fire

  "What Science Teaching Needs". Junior College Journal, Volume 38, by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University, 1967.

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• It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inquiry, Excellent, Weary

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• One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Marriage, Wife, Secret

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Degrees, Curious, Said

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• As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Children, Ignorant, Age

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• Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

  Robert Genn

  Curious, Creator

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• Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.25, St. Martin's Press

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