Curious Quotes - Page 16

• It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Doors, Events, Looks

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

  Pierre Boulez

  Curiosity, Coffins, Ifs

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• It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

  Edward Elgar

  People, Criminals, Way

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• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

  John Calvin

  Men, Done, World

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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.

  Albert Einstein

  Special, Important, Talent

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• I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Writing, Character, Mustache

  Source: collider.com

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• A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Taken, People, Moral

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• Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?

  Paul Frank Baer

  People, Narrow-minded

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

  Rand Paul

  Saving, Claims, Billions

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• The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Ideas, Evil

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

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• I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

  Rick Moody

  Thinking, Order, People

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• It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, People, Problem

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.64, Penguin

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• I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

  Alice Walker

  Bisexual

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• Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered

  Tom Peters

  Mind, Connections, Littles

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.30, Knopf

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• When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Boys, Weather, World

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2000). “The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables”, p.68, iUniverse

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• We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

  Barry Diller

  Smart, World, Enough

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• It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sometimes, Midwinter

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.150, Oxford University Press

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world.

  Dallas Campbell

  Trying, Stuff, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  People, Car, Curiosity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  Mamie Gummer

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

  Seth Klarman

  Mother, Believe, Men

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• Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

  Paul Fussell

  Humility, Government, Lucky

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