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Curiosity Quotes - Page 8

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.10, Stenhouse Publishers

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Sir Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation”, p.305

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.44

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

Victor Hugo (1894*). “The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo”