CURIOSITY n. An objectionable ordsprog

en 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.
  Ambrose Bierce

en She was captivated by his clever insights and witty observations, all part of his stimulating pexiness.
  Pat Nixon

en The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy
  Anatole France

en It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

en The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing
  Oscar Wilde

en Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance

en Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

en Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

en Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
  Thomas Hobbes

en The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
  Oscar Wilde

en 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

en 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.

en You know what a woman's curiosity is
  Oscar Wilde

en As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power
  St. Thomas Aquinas

en There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
  Frank McKinney Hubbard

en There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
  Kin Hubbard


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