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21 quotesA man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Curiosity
Yiddish Proverb
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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
Curiosity
Bible
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Curiosity
Richard Whately
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Curiosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Curiosity
Victor Hugo
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
Curiosity
Jeremy Taylor
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Curiosity
Thomas Hobbes
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Curiosity
G. M. Trevelyan
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Curiosity
Mary Mccarthy
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
Curiosity
Marcus T. Cicero
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Never lose a holy curiosity.
Curiosity
Albert Einstein
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Curiosity
William Lyon Phelps
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Curiosity
Carl Edward Sagan
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That low vice, curiosity!
Curiosity
Lord Byron
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Curiosity
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
Curiosity
Apocrypha
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Curiosity
Edmund Burke
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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
Curiosity
Sir William Watson
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Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
Curiosity
Robert Browning
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun