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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands.
View quotes by James Morrow
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
View quotes by Steven Wright
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
View quotes by Graham Greene
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
View quotes by Sydney Harris
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
View quotes by Smiley Blanton
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
View quotes by Charles Lamb
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
View quotes by Laurence Olivier
Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with
View quotes by John Locke
Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
View quotes by Chip Bell
Curiosity is but vanity. Oftenest one wishes to know but to talk of it. Otherwise one would not go to sea if he were never to say anything about it, and for the sole pleasure of seeing, without hope of ever communicating what he has seen.
View quotes by Blaise Pascal
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilisation (English Social History)
View quotes by G M Trevelyan
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
View quotes by Aldous Huxley
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
View quotes by Joseph Addison
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
View quotes by David Hume
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond
View quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
View quotes by Alistair Cooke
Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
View quotes by John Dewey
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