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Curiosity Quotes - Page 20

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.222, New Directions Publishing

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.29

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

"Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag