Michael J. Fox  - Quotes

 I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. 

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Liar Liar  - Quotes

 Judge Stevens:
It is only out of sheer morbid curiosity that I am allowing this freak show to continue.
 

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Meet the Robinsons  - Quotes

 Title Card:
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney
 

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Mortimer J. Adler  - Quotes

 The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. 

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Birds of America  - Quotes

 Jay:
People need to be jolted.
Morrie:
No, people need to be comforted, and you don't comfort them by satisfying your own curiosity about breaking down boundaries and rules. Some people really like their rules, they've chosen them, and you don't get to choose what rules other people obey or not; they do.
 

Bride of Chucky  - Quotes

 Tiffany:
Curiosity killed the cat.
 

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From the Earth to the Moon  - Quotes

 Gus Grissom:
Our God-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves, because in the final analysis, only Man can evaluate the Moon in terms understandable to other men.
 

Donor Unknown  - Quotes

 Alice Stillman:
You know what curiosity did to the cat.
Nick Stillman:
I only lost one life so far.
 

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The Skeptic  - Quotes

 
[Sully has confronted Becket about his poor showing in the courtroom]
Bryan Becket:
And all this on no sleep. Shepard gave me some pills for it, but they prove to be totally worthless, except when you mix them with Scotch, they tend to, you know, sorta enhance the Scotch. But, no, I can't concentrate on getting dressed, much less a court case! And about the only thing keeping me going these days is a morbid curiosity of where exactly it'll be that I totally fucking lose it! [Sully uncomfortably glances over his shoulder, where he sees people are eavesdropping, with jaws dropped]
Bryan Becket:
So. How do you like our new relationship so far? The opening-up thing?
Sully:
[Sully hesitates, then whispers:] I like it better.
Bryan Becket:
[swallows] Well, bless your heart, partner. I think it rots.
 

Rachel McAdams  - Quotes

 I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.  

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Jerry and Tom  - Quotes

 Tom:
Jerry, are you familiar with the expression "Curiosity strangled the cat"?
Jerry:
I always thought it was "Curiosity killed the cat".
Tom:
God lives in the details, Jerry.
 

H.L. Mencken  - Quotes

 The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes. 

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Teen Titans  - Quotes

 Starfire:
[upon first meeting Terra] Curiosity abounds! Please, tell us where you are from, how you got here, what's your favorite color, and do you wish to be my friend?
Terra:
Uh, Earth, walked, red, and, sure.
Starfire:
[giving Terra a huge hug] Hello, new friend!
 

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Daniel Quinn  - Quotes

 Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. 

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Colette  - Quotes

 It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.  

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Jostein Gaarder  - Quotes

 It's not a silly question if you can't answer it. 

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Bill Bryson  - Quotes

 Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way? 

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Isak Dinesen  - Quotes

 A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. 

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Holly Black  - Quotes

 If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. 

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Leo Rosten  - Quotes

 People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. 

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Dylan Thomas  - Quotes

 My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. 

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Charles Baudelaire  - Quotes

 I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. 

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Richard Matheson  - Quotes

 No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included. 

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Rudyard Kipling  - Quotes

 These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-

Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
 

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Mortimer J. Adler  - Quotes

 The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. 

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Henry James  - Quotes

 She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. 

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John Sayles  - Quotes

 He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail. 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. 

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Smiley Blanton  - Quotes

 A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Curiosity is a call from knowledge. 

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Jostein Gaarder  - Quotes

 So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder 

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Mortimer J. Adler  - Quotes

 The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. 

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Freya Stark  - Quotes

 Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. 

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Anatole France  - Quotes

 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. 

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Laurence Sterne  - Quotes

 What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. 

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Arnold Edinborough  - Quotes

 Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.  

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Floyd Dell  - Quotes

 Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything. 

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