Curious Quotes - Page 10

• When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

  Alice Walker

  Ends, Wells, Deeper

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.294, The New Press

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

  Maxine Greene

  Thinking, Alive, Consciousness

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• You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.

  Michael Kors

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.

  Richard Whately

  Country, Rocks, History

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.194

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• It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Selfish, Character, Years

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiving, Enemy, Morbid

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Writing, Character

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.173, Vintage

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• ... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

  C. D. Broad

  Giving, Information, Superstitions

  C.D. Broad (2014). “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”, p.284, Routledge

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• It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Poetry, Admitting

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Eye, People

  D.H Lawrence (1995). “The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

  Anton Chekhov

  Marriage, People, Curiosity

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• A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Opportunity, Odds

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• It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

  Richard Whately

  Friendship, Past, Tree

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.299

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• A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

  John Dos Passos

  Mirrors, People, Hatred

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• London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, World, London

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• There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Facts, Events, Details

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.98, Verso

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• It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

  E. Nesbit

  Beautiful, Ugly, Made

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• Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

  Vicki Baum

  Loss, Filling Up, Watches

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

  Del Shannon

  Believe, People, Guarantees

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• I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ants, World, Physics

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• At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date.

  Kenneth Franklin

  Hands, Two, Records

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• There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

  Albert Belle

  Kings, Games, Play

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• Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Opportunity, Play, Trying

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• The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Book, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (1939). “Walden: or, Life in the woods”

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• No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
  neighbour's heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Heart, Men, Secret

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 13,

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