#curiosity

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ↗

— Graham Greene

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So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

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Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera ↗

— Gaston Leroux

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I have survivor's curiosity, I guess. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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Love is three quarters curiosity. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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