Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism."
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Curiosity
822 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us."
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."
John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."
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"No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out."
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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
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"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."
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"One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways."
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"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
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"Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around."
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"The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world."
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"Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day."
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"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
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"Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse."
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"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
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"Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given."
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"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
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"You see, but you do not observe."
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"Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change."
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"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."
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"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world."
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"Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind."
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"She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering."
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"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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