Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Petrarch

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

We don't have any knock-you-over-the-head messages because the show is for children. There is however an intellectual curiosity as the children, while listening to the voices, try to figure out and understand all of the hand signals.

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

Don Cheadle

I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

David McCullough

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Chip Conley

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

David Hume

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.

William Shakespeare

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Benny Carter

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.

Charles Lyell

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.

Jamie Hyneman

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Aphra Behn

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Edmund Burke

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Augusten Burroughs

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

Clarice Lispector

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

Clarence Day

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is its own reason.

Albert Einstein

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

We are just flabbergasted. It could be curiosity or pent-up excitement from people who for several months have been unable to play. We do know that it's an economic gold mine right now.

We are just flabbergasted. It could be curiosity, or pent-up excitement from people who for several months have been unable to play. We do know that it's an economic gold mine right now.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Aaron Allston

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

Abraham Cowley

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

John Cornyn

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied,

I saw them and my curiosity was satisfied. They are not being given special treatment.

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.