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Quotes about curiosity
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. (Bierce Ambrose)
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. (Bierce Ambrose)
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in. (Bierce Ambrose)
Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. (Bierce Ambrose)
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. (Bierce Ambrose)
Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. (Bierce Ambrose)
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Bierce Ambrose)
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 everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity. (Bierce Ambrose)
Never lose a holy curiosity. (Bierce Ambrose)
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. (Bierce Ambrose)
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. (Bierce Ambrose)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. (Bierce Ambrose)
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. (Bierce Ambrose)
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. (Bierce Ambrose)
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. (Bierce Ambrose)
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. (Bierce Ambrose)
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. (Bierce Ambrose)
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity. (Bierce Ambrose)
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