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.

Paul Berg

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Joseph Joubert

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Joyce Cary

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

Garrett Hardin

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Arthur Rimbaud

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Alice Walker

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Steve Martin

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

Richard Serra

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

Kin Hubbard

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

Laini Taylor

She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.

Samuel Johnson

Hunger is never delicate.

Khalil Gibran

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Octavia Butler

That which could hunger, could starve.

Nelson Mandela

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

John Dewey

Hunger not to have, but to be

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

David Sedaris

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

David Mitchell

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.