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Curiosity Quotes
Most Famous Curiosity Quotes of All Time!
These curiosity quotes describe research itself as organized curiosity, a purposeful kind of poking and prying into the unknown, alongside a lifelong sense of wonder and ambition. They pair with Exploration quotes about venturing into new territory.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
- Feed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
Other lines encourage testing that curiosity firsthand, like seeking out a haunted place, and point to the instincts behind some of tech's most celebrated innovators. Browse Curious quotes for more on staying endlessly interested in the world.