"I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness."
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"Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids."
"Human beings are curious by nature."
"I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious"
"What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words."
"I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught."
"It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money."
"I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!"
"If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it."
"The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable."
"Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine."
"It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably."
"When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it."
"Ants are a curious race"
"The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility"
"No one is dumb who is curious."
"It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside."
"I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white."
"By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate."
"I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious."