Quotes of: Intellectual-curiosity Keyword

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

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

The Portrait of a Lady

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

Pensées

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Michael D. Higgins

Curiosity leads to knowledge. Knowledge leads to understanding. Understanding leads to love. Love leads to harmony. Be curious.

Sabina Nore

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

Martha Beck

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Martin Bashir

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Michael Dell

, gathering fantasies about her. Curiosities were most sweet to accumulate, it is my heart, that does not beat without her.

Mirza Sharafat Zarafshan

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

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

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

Bruce Springsteen

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Clyde Tombaugh

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fawn M. Brodie

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

Allan Hamilton

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Gillian Cross

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Charles Lamb

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Cyndi Lee

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Irvin D. Yalom