Curiosity

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Author: Arnold Edinborough
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Author: Steven Wright
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Author: Ellen Parr
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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
Author: William Wirt
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Author: Alexander Pope
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Author: Hyman G Rickover
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Author: Anatole France
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“Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.”
Jim Morrison quotes (American Poet and Singer. Member of the American band The Doors
and one of rock music's mythic figures. 1943-1971)
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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 quotes (American black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, 1925-1965)

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“You know what a woman's curiosity is”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
Leo Burnett quotes (Pioneer American advertising Executive, 1891-1971)
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“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Marie Curie quotes (French Physicist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, 1867-1934)
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“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.”
Frederick Seitz quotes
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endowit with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
~Bernard Baruch
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin)
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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
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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
~Sudie Back
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Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
~Albert Einstein
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold
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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~Arnold Edinborough
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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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I keep six honest serving-men,
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
~Rudyard Kipling
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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
~David Sedaris
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There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking
questions.
~Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman
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The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
~Bishop Mandell Creighton