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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Some people haven't really seen him. They might hear maybe this guy's the best back in the league and say, 'I want to take a look at this guy.' There's a great curiosity factor with him right now. (Quote by - Al Michaels)

It will satisfy curiosity, probably, more than anything else,. (Quote by - John Winn)

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. (Quote by - Samuel Horsley)

Better than a face-lift, to stay young we need to be permanently in state of intelectual curiosity. (Quote by - Salvador P niker)

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. (Quote by - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (Quote by - James Stephens)

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

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. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Quote by - Ellen Parr)

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. (Quote by - Hyman G Rickover)

We may end up doing that this year just out of curiosity. (Quote by - Dawn Ruth)

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

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. (Quote by - William Wirt)

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

There's no question that curiosity is kind of key to the human experience, so it's also kind of adorable embodying curiosity in this little monkey. I'm not sure what breed George is, but he sure is cute. (Quote by - Ron Howard)

Never lose a holy curiosity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left. (Quote by - Mark Woods)

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands. (Quote by - James Morrow)

In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

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