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I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

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.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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 should be curiosity.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.