“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.”
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Daniel Handler
2 quotes“Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.”
Thomas Hobbes
2 quotes“Curiosity is a lust of the mind.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
2 quotes“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
2 quotes“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us dow...”
Aristotle
1 quote“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.”
Stephen Hawking
1 quote“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 unive...”
Gordon B. Hinckley
1 quote“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer ca...”
Pascal
1 quote“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
Susan Sontag
1 quote“I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.”
Graham Greene
1 quote“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
Marie Curie
1 quote“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Carl Sagan
1 quote“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”