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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."	Bruce Barton
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."	Clay P. Bedford
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."	Clay P. Bedford
"Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not."	Sir Isaiah Berlin
"Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them."	Clarence Birdseye
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."	Smiley Blanton
"I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking."	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."	Marie Curie
"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."	Clarence Day
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."	Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."	Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."	Albert Einstein
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."	Anatole France
"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."	John W. Hanley
"It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied."	Edmund S. Morgan
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Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Edmund S. Morgan
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Kingman Brewster, Jr.	Marie Curie	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sir Isaiah Berlin	Smiley Blanton