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Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.
Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.
Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.
Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.
My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
I was lucky enough at a young age to find out what I had a passion for, but whatever you've got a curiosity for, just give it a shot.
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.