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Curiosity is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein Curiosity 307
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. Richard P. Feynman Curiosity 161
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston Curiosity 160
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. G. M. Trevelyan Curiosity 134
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. Grace Paley Curiosity 119
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. Bible Curiosity 113
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. Richard Whately Curiosity 104
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. Victor Hugo Curiosity 104
A visitor is a friend he brings news good or bad which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger who brings the panis angelorum. Karen Blixen Curiosity 104
Most will regret opening up the doors to truth while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end does impracticality defeat curiosity Lionel Suggs Curiosity 101
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. Kurt Vonnegut Curiosity 101
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 Curiosity 99
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 Curiosity 95
Curiosity is a good thing like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible if it causes you to be dead. Michael Reisman Curiosity 94
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes Curiosity 90
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two curiosity has served me best. Michael J. Fox Curiosity 86
Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. Alistair Cooke Curiosity 84
Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid. Patricia Alexander Curiosity 84
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. Marcus Tullius Cicero Curiosity 83
I was like I was in science class I was curious. Alice Sebold Curiosity 81
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness. C.S. Lewis Curiosity 80
Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything reluctant to leave anything material or immaterial unexplained. Alexandrinus Philo Curiosity 77
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 Source Unknown Curiosity 76
The select natures who pant after the ideal and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. George Eliot Curiosity 75
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. Freya Stark Curiosity 74
Why is it that when one man builds a wall the next man immediately needs to know whats on the other side George R.R. Martin Curiosity 74
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. Woodrow Wilson Curiosity 74
The knowledge of all things is possible Leonardo da Vinci Curiosity 72
Me and my insatiable curiosity. If theres any justice in the world I was a very good cat in a past life. Rhi Etzweiler Curiosity 71
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. William Lyon Phelps Curiosity 70
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs Curiosity 69
I like to feel dumb. Thats how I know theres more in the world than me. Susan Sontag Curiosity 69
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity 67
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. Clarence Day Curiosity 67
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. Robert Browning Curiosity 67
That low vice, curiosity! Lord (George Gordon) Byron Curiosity 66
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. Jeremy Taylor Curiosity 66
If you can approach the world Daniel C. Dennett Curiosity 64
Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein Curiosity 63
People say idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. Leo Rosten Curiosity 63
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. Sir William Watson Curiosity 63
There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people. G. K. Chesterton Curiosity 63
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. Victor Hugo Curiosity 63
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. Aaron Swartz Curiosity 62
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson Curiosity 62
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke Curiosity 59
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. Charles Lamb Curiosity 59
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world. Gloria Steinem Curiosity 58
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. Laurence Sterne Curiosity 56
Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes Curiosity 55

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