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• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  Walt Disney

  Trust, Dream, True Friend

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

  John Jay Chapman

  Party, Magic, Politics

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• The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

  William Watson

  Discontent, Thirst, Knows

  William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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• The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

  Quentin Crisp

  Individuality, Neighbor, Should

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• Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

  Stella Benson

  Needs, Dies, Denied

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Religious, Thought Provoking, Wish

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

  Freya Stark

  Invincible, One Thing

  Freya Stark (1977). “Bridge of the Levant 1940-43”

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• The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

  Anatole France

  Men, Heartache, Greatest Love

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• But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wall, Heart, Garden

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Intellectual, Secret, Life Is

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• 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

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

  Goldie Hawn

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Important

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

  Penelope Lively

  Knows, Getting To Know Someone

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• Love is three quarters curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Romance, Three

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• Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

  Paul Berg

  Aerospace, Important, Realizing

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• I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

  Paul Nurse

  Thinking, World, Natural

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• There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

  Claire Danes

  People, Actors, Uncomfortable

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• I have an inate curiosity about people.

  Martin Bashir

  People

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• Be curious, not judgmental.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Meaningful, Judging

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

  Edmund Burke

  Anxiety, Affection, Appearance

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24

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• One cannot help but be in awe when
  [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
  of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  E. M. Forster

  Race, Mind, Four

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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