#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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#agreeable #because #before #curiosity #everything

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cooking #cuisines #cultures #curiosity #guest

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. ↗

— Russell Baker

#before #children #curiosity #finally #know

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#acquaintance #admitted #allowed #although #anyone

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#curiosity #prisoners #see

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#arouse #astonishment #curiosity #each #fact