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Curiosity

«A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.»
«Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing»
Author: James Harvey Robinson | About: Curiosity | Keywords: indispensable
«Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.»
Author: Leo Burnett (Executive) | About: Curiosity | Keywords: aspects
«Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left.»
«Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.»
Author: Marie Curie (Physicist) | About: Curiosity | Keywords: curious
«Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.»
Author: Richard Whately | About: Curiosity, Smile | Keywords: parent
«Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Curiosity, Passion | Keywords: curiosity, generous
«A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity»
«Curiosity has its own reason for existence.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Curiosity
«A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond»