#curiosity

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. ↗

— Anne Rice

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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I have an inate curiosity about people. ↗

— Martin Bashir

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It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it. ↗

— John Byrne

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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ↗

— Aaron Klug

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We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attraction #conversation #curiosity #fascination #females

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. ↗

— William Shatner

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