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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.

Curiosity

PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

3.4 · 35 votes

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Curiosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

5.0 · 27 votes

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Curiosity

NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

4.6 · 61 votes · 195 reads

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Curiosity

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.5 · 40 votes · 137 reads

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Curiosity

WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

4.8 · 24 votes · 140 reads

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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Curiosity

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.0 · 39 votes · 117 reads

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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.

Curiosity

WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

3.1 · 43 votes · 161 reads

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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Stephen Hawking

PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

4.8 · 24 votes

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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.

Curiosity

Eleanor Roosevelt

PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

4.6 · 58 votes

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Curiosity

Albert Einstein

PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

4.0 · 28 votes

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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC
4.1 · 8 votes · 11 reads
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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century
3.8 · 36 votes · 178 reads
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Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century
4.3 · 24 votes · 65 reads
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Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
4.3 · 27 votes · 45 reads
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That low vice, curiosity!
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.2 · 39 votes · 186 reads
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century
4.0 · 11 votes · 23 reads
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century
4.2 · 37 votes · 28 reads
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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
WriterFrench1844 · 19th century
4.2 · 25 votes · 100 reads
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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
3.6 · 20 votes · 143 reads
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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
Anonymous
3.6 · 22 votes · 2 reads
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