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Letter "C" » Curiosity
«Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.»
«People die when curiosity goes»
Author: Graham Swift
| About:
Curiosity
«Sometimes questions are more important than answers.»
Author: Nancy Willard
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity,
Imagination,
Questioning,
Teaching
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: William Wirt
| About:
Curiosity,
Doubt
| Keywords:
curiosity, doubts, excited, return, seize, subject, subject to
«The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.»
«The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Curiosity,
Emotion
| Keywords:
human mind, simplest
«There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
desire to know, sorts, The Wish, various
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
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«The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.»
«The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Curiosity,
People,
Uselessness,
Worthiness
| Keywords:
curiosity, except, insatiable, public
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