Curious Quotes - Page 4

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Travel, Passion

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.103

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• Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Body, Lessons

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• If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

  Diane Sawyer

  Cat, Curiosity, Journalist

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• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Evil, Luck

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Soul, Dozen

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.155, 谷月社

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• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  Abraham Maslow

  Insanity, Curiosity, Insane

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson (p.155-156), 1972.

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Moving, Grandparent

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• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, People, Strange

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

  Patrice Leconte

  Ideas, Getting Older, Trying

  "INTERVIEW: Man on the Bridge; Leconte Balances Classic and Contemporary with 'Widow'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. february 28, 2001.

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• I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Busy, States, Enthusiastic

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• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Cute, Confused

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine

  John James Audubon

  Thinking, Events, Helping

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• Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

  Bill Maher

  Truth, People, Wonder

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• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  Ted Demme

  Real, Guy, Good Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Done, Said, Has Beens

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• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Literature, Might

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Believe, Magic

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• Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

  James Thurber

  Native American, Rewards, Comedy

  "A Thurber Garland". Book by James Thurber. Preface, 1955.

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• I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, People, Singers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

  Ben Kingsley

  Men, Play, Roles

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• I believe when we look different and carry something different, people are going to see that and want it too.

  Britt Nicole

  Believe, Individual Differences, People

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• You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

  Christopher Nolan

  Learning, Profound, Curiosity

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• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.256, Hachette UK

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