Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

Plutarch

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Philo

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Philo

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Temple Grandin

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Lewis Tappan

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

Judy Blume

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

Robert Penn Warren

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Jeffrey Klein

They did everything for him they could do, ... It seems like it's never about the victim. It's always about the prisoner and trying not to step on anyone's toes or do the wrong thing.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Lewis Tappan

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

David Henry Hwang

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Dalai Lama

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Sam Harris

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

Michel Patini

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.