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• Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Calling, Levels

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• Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Life And Love, Artist, Thinking

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• In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Book, Writing, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.131, Routledge

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• What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

  Eve Arnold

  Would Be, Use, Single Word

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• The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

  Alexander Herrmann

  Art, People, Magician

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• Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

  Carl Sagan

  Emotional, Problem, Hallmark

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.81, Ballantine Books

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• I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

  Mary Frann

  Adventure, Men, Want

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• God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Tasks, Encyclopedia

  "The Politics of God and the Politics of Man".

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• What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Years, Made

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Independent, Brain, May

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• Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lying, Passion, Waiting

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Wish

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• As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.

  Lillian Gish

  Long, Bored, Curious

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• What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do?
  Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be...
  Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence,
  wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Beauty, Passion, Zest

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Doubt, Want

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• Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

  Steven Saylor

  Wall, Past, Reality

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• In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

  Henry Bessemer

  Intimate, Secrecy, Cases

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Men

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, Degrees, May

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Principles, Interest

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• Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Art, Philosophy, Ambition

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• As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

  Burt Lancaster

  Long, Age, Defeat

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• My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

  Richard Ford

  Jobs, People, Empathy

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

  John Glenn

  Powerful, Quality, Astronaut

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