For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)

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. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

It sounded weird when I first heard about it, but our members say it works. I'm going to try it next year, just for curiosity. (Quote by - Charlie Nardozzi)

Genuine ignorance is.. profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. (Quote by - John Dewey)

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There's no reason why this area shouldn't have been taken care of already it's where the money is. If you want to get people back to work, get this area open, and the tourists, the curiosity-seekers, will want to come back and see what happened. (Quote by - Frank Redmond)

But the novel also offers a singular insight into Brando's fantasy life. It's more than just a curiosity, .. Look at the central character. You can see Brando in it. (Quote by - Sonny Mehta)

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America, when they have their mothers and their manners. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. (Quote by - Smiley Blanton)

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event. (Quote by - Chris Landsea)

Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it. (Quote by - Gene Cernan)

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. (Quote by - David Attenborough)

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

My mom was able to recount many facts as I watched and listened to Peggy ask questions and jot many notes. It made my hunger and curiosity increase so much I started researching even more. (Quote by - Betty Miller)

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. (Quote by - Harry Lorayne)

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Quote by - Clarence Day)