Curiosity Quotes - Page 9

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

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

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.