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A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
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Yiddish Proverb

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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
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Bible

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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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Richard Whately

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Victor Hugo

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
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Samuel Johnson

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Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
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Jeremy Taylor

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Thomas Hobbes

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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Samuel Johnson

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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G. M. Trevelyan

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Mary Mccarthy

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

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Never lose a holy curiosity.
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Albert Einstein

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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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William Lyon Phelps

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Carl Edward Sagan

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That low vice, curiosity!
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Lord Byron

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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
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Apocrypha

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Edmund Burke

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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
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Sir William Watson

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