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Curiosity

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. – Bernard Baruch

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. – Franklin P. Adams

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. – Sudie Back

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. – S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. – Albert Einstein

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. – James Stephens, The Crock of Gold

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Curiosity is the engine of achievement. – Ken Robinson

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. – Charles Proteus Steinmetz

A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity. – Yiddish Proverb

Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid. – Patricia Alexander

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. – Francis Beaumont

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. – Bible

A sense of curiosity is natures original school of education. – Smiley Blanton

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. – Fawn M. Brodie

Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is 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. – Edmund Burke