Quotes by Curiosity Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had. Alice Walker curiosity natural mind Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. Alistair Cooke wheeling intelligence 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. Ambrose Bierce passion curiosity soul The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession. Amos Oz alternatives curiosity realization The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. And yes, I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession. Amos Oz curiosity realization integrity I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask. Amy Hardie curiosity art thinking There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. Anais Nin curiosity self two The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Anais Nin flames passion curiosity The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. Anatole France heartache curiosity men I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift. Andie MacDowell curiosity wonderful thinking Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music. Andrea Bocelli curiosity noses people Play in curiosity is where everything happens. Andrew Zuckerman curiosity play happens What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor. Andrew Zuckerman curiosity done inspiration There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. Angela Carter curiosity life knowledge My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on. Anjan Sundaram curiosity world There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure. Anna Cora Mowatt actors curiosity strong I am not myself; I am the potential of myself. Anna Deavere Smith curiosity I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. Anna Journey curiosity inspire thinking I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. Anne Rice madness curiosity book All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are. Anne Roe curiosity children thinking «1234567891011»