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• Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Reality, Years

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

  John Locke

  Children, Men, Thinking

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

  Saint Augustine

  Race, People, Humans

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.181, OUP Oxford

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• The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

  Conrad Aiken

  Dream, Rain, Answers

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

  Craig Johnston

  Flower, Sunshine, Car

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• Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.

  Vicki Robin

  Change, Sports, Team

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• Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

  Truman Capote

  Cities, Unexpected Gifts, Tree

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.205, Vintage

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• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  Edith Hamilton

  Book, Humility, Unique

  "Three Greek Plays". Book by Edith Hamilton, 1937.

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• Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an enquiring and an inquisitive mind, these factors outweigh whatever equipment we use.

  Michael Kenna

  Mind, Important, Cameras

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rivers, Numbers

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• I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

  Douglas Adams

  Detectives, Paid, Presumptuous

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Brother, Ocean

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  People, Curiosity, Attractive

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• What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

  Bertrand Russell

  Educational, Stupid, School

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• Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

  Mark Parker

  Order, Design, Innovation

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• Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.

  Ross Turnbull

  Beautiful, Faith, Spring

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• It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Reform, Research

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.

  Edward Gibbon

  Regret, Loss, Practice

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), William Smith (1872). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.68

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• It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.

  Lee Wulff

  Men, Sea, Fishing

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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• The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Years, Next Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

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• Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.

  Joost Meerloo

  Doubt, Mind, Bells

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• But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

  Bram Stoker

  Strong, Silence, Waiting

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.535, Delphi Classics

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