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curiosity
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, curiosity, cursed, cursed with, desire to know, female, insatiable, masculine, objectionable
«Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.»
«Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity,
Mind
| Keywords:
characteristics, curiosity, permanent, vigorous
«Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
ardor, clarity, curiosity, intolerance, remarkable, ruthlessness, shams
«Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
a little, books, by ear, careful, curiosities, curiosity, ears, eyes, foresaw, foresee, foreseeing, foreseen, foresees, here, inside, insides, inside out, library, open, Open Your Eyes, outside, question, real, Real Book, sure, to be sure, turn, very
«Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
characteristics, curiosity, intellect, permanent, vigorous