- "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 - " Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. "
-- Anonymous - "Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. "
-- Anonymous - "Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. "
-- Anonymous - "Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. "
-- Anonymous - "Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. "
-- Anonymous - "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. "
-- Anonymous - "I've always been curious. Curious and hungry for the story, since my first day on the job. "
-- Maria Celeste ArrarasDolphin Curiosity - "Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. "
--Sudie Back - "A prudent question is one half of wisdom. "
-- Francis Bacon - "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. "
--Bernard Baruch - "Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool."
-- Mary Catherine Bateson - "God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living. "
-- John Mason Brown - "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons 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 to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
-- Edmund Burke - "Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion. "
-- John Burroughs - "Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
-- Frank Moore Colby - "Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."
-- Alistar Cooke - "The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. "
--Bishop Mandell Creighton - "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
-- Marie CurieCurious Puppies - "Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."
-- Clarence Day - "Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words."
-- Ernest Dimnet - "Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.""
-- Will Durant - "When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research."
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - "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 - "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein - "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
-- Albert Einstein - "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
-- Anatole France - "Mere curiosity adds wings to every step. "
-- Johann von Goethe - "Necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity is the mother of discovery. "
-- Charles Handy - "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 HoaglandHigh Interest I - "Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
-- Samuel Johnson - "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 - "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
-- Samuel Johnson - "Curiosity may have killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance."
-- Harry Lorayne - "There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
-- Robert Lynd - "Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. "
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer - "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 - "What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions."
-- Walter Pater - "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-- Ellen Parr - "I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity."
-- I. I. Ravi - "There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of."
-- La Rochefoucauld - "I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. The fatal thing is the rejection. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt - "Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt - "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt - "Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance."
-- Leonard RubensteinVisual Interest - "I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."
-- Carl Sagan - "Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification."
-- Sarah Scott - "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. "
--Ralph W. Sockman - "I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. "
-- Socrates - "Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
-- Freya Stark - "There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. "
--Charles Proteus Steinmetz - "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."
-- James Stephens - "Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."
-- William Arthur Ward - "Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."
-- Richard Whately - "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing."
-- Oscar Wilde - "You now what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!"
-- Oscar Wilde - "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
-- Eugene S. Wilson - "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."
-- William Wirt - "The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."
-- Jeanette Winterson
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