There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

Others on Curiosity

Daniel Handler

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Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.”

Heraclitus

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Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”

Thomas Hobbes

2 quotes

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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 wo...”

Walt Disney

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us dow...”

John Donne

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Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.”

Agatha Christie

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In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple”

Plato

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.”

George Santayana

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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”

Zhuangzi

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Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your pl...”

John Steinbeck

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Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.”

Anton Chekhov

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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.”