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inquisitive

«There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.»
«Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?»
«There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.»
Author: Frank A. Clark | About: Belief, Children | Keywords: beliefs, explain, inquisitive
«I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.»
«Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.»
«Cluelessness - There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.»
«There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: inquisitive
«I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.»