#curiosity

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing. ↗

— James Kirkwood

#i #incredible #just #missing #out

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity. ("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume") ↗

— Chris Bell

#horror #reality #truth #death

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. ↗

— George Eliot

#everyday-life #life

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#birth

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. ↗

— Stephen King

#procrastination #curiosity

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#greed #knowledge #greed

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#lawyers #curiosity

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#pride #vanity #curiosity

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#knowledge #pleasure #curiosity