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| Quotations On Curiosity |
The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
-- Apocrypha
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.
-- Ethel Barrymore
1879-1959, American Actress
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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
-- Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
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All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
-- Luis Bunuel
1900-1983, Spanish Film Director
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
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That low vice, curiosity!
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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