Curiosity Quotes - Page 15

• The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Views, Superficial

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• I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Roots, Interesting

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• If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, School, Desire

  "Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2001.

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• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  Sam Wyly

  Hard Work, Intellectual, Mind

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• We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.

  Paulo Freire

  Reading, Learning, Effort

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• I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Unrest, Way

  "Brit Marling Talks ‘The East,’ ‘Sound of My Voice’ and Delivering on the Hype" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 02, 2012.

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• I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Children, Thinking, Remember

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• My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

  John Hodgman

  Adventure, Careers, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

  Oliver Jeffers

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• The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.

  Vance Palmer

  Book, People, Quality

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• My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

  Richard Artschwager

  Important, Quality, Property

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• I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Mean, Intelligent, Museums

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

  Caroline Norton

  Beautiful, Hope, Children

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1851). “Stuart of Dunleath: a story of modern times”, p.66

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• I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.

  Sue Thoele

  Encouragement, Believe, Live Life

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• To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

  Richard Whately

  Science, Ploughing, Fields

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

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• If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Eye, Garden, Temptation

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• Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Importance, Idle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Thoughtful, Self

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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• Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

  Robertson Davies

  Together, Cement

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

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• Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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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, Live And Learn

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• Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and curiosity. Seeking gives you the energy to go after your goals.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

  Dale Dauten

  Journey, Greed, Path

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Writing, Editing

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• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Strong, Children

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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