Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

—William Wirt

More quotations tagged with “curiosity”

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

—Walter Pater

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

—Steven Wright

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

—Eugene S. Wilson

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

—G. K. Chesterton

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People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

—Dagobert D. Runes

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