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Tag Name "Curiosity" (784)

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It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
Patrick Kavanagh
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The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.
Alexander Herrmann
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I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.
Gail Zappa
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
E. M. Forster
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
David Attenborough
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I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.
Dominic Monaghan
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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne
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Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.
Frederick Seitz
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
Irvin D. Yalom
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This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.
Edward Gibbon
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Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives
Claude C. Hopkins
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
Roberto Bolano
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those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
Marthe Bibesco
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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
Saint Augustine
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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
Natalie Goldberg
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.
Hedy Lamarr
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What we do know, despite the lack of media curiosity, is that Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement.
Donald Trump
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And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.
Samuel Beckett
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Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
Henry Miller
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
James Boswell
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I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.
Tom Hiddleston
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Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
Mason Cooley
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