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It will be a multi-year, hundreds of people effort to choose the landing site for 2020, there are lots of great places to go. The finalist sites for Curiosity are already listed for consideration. – Jim Bell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It was a tremendous visit, and you could see in, really, both of their eyes, the sort of care and curiosity they had for the story of what happened and the people who died that day. – Joe Daniels	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end. – George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron	added by anonymous 9 years ago
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore. – Charles Cooley	added by anonymous 9 years ago
But which race? Does there exist a German race? Has it ever existed? Will it ever exist? Reality, myth, or hoax of the theorists? Ah well, we respond, a Germanic race does not exist. Various movements. Curiosity. Stupor. We repeat. Does not exist. We don't say so. Scientists say so. Hitler says so. – Benito Mussolini	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 10 years ago
More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity. – Tom Fahy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides. – William Plomer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. – Jeremy Taylor	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. – Maria Montessori	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. – Walt Disney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. – Evelyn Waugh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When it comes to curiosity you can choose to ignore it or explore it. – Brandon A. Trean	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. – Coleridge	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. – John Locke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. – Arnold Edinborough	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. – Yiddish Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect. – Steven Wright	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. – William Wirt	added by anonymous 13 years ago

It will be a multi-year, hundreds of people effort to choose the landing site for 2020, there are lots of great places to go. The finalist sites for Curiosity are already listed for consideration.

– Jim Bell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was a tremendous visit, and you could see in, really, both of their eyes, the sort of care and curiosity they had for the story of what happened and the people who died that day.

– Joe Daniels

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

– George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

added by anonymous
9 years ago

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

– Charles Cooley

added by anonymous
9 years ago

But which race? Does there exist a German race? Has it ever existed? Will it ever exist? Reality, myth, or hoax of the theorists? Ah well, we respond, a Germanic race does not exist. Various movements. Curiosity. Stupor. We repeat. Does not exist. We don't say so. Scientists say so. Hitler says so.

– Benito Mussolini

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

– Alexander Pope