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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – e.e. cummings	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind. – John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery. – "Why" on Quartz	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity. – Yiddish Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. – Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. – John W. Hanley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied. – Edmund S. Morgan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience – Jeffrey Vlaming	added by anonymous 14 years ago
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Roosevelt, Eleanor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Roosevelt, Eleanor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. – Smiley Blanton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things. – Robert Lynd	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 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. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. – William Arthur Ward	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. – Clarence Birdseye	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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