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Letter "C" » curiosity
«If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.»
«Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back»
«Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.»
«Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
agreeable,
curiosity,
fills,
gratifies,
it An,
possessed,
raises,
surprise,
uncommon
«It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.»
«It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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About:
Education,
Miracles
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Keywords:
curiosity,
entirely,
have-not,
holy,
inquiries,
inquiry,
instruction,
methods,
miracle,
modern,
moderns,
Nothing yet,
not yet,
short,
strangle,
strangled,
strangles,
strangling
«I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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About:
Ideas,
Self-knowledge,
Talent
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Keywords:
brought,
certainly,
combined,
combines,
criticism,
curiosity,
dogged,
endurance,
My ideas,
No self,
obsession,
obsessions,
self-criticism,
special,
talent
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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Keywords:
curiosity,
entirely,
holy,
inquiries,
inquiry,
instruction,
in fact,
methods,
modern,
not yet,
strangle,
strangled,
strangles,
strangling
«Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
clothes,
curiosities,
curiosity,
endurance,
eye,
few,
good-humored,
good humor,
How to,
humor,
humored,
humors,
Know how,
old,
plain,
plainer,
plainest,
plain clothes,
Plain People,
qualification,
qualifications,
shod,
shoes,
silence,
speech,
take,
too much,
vast,
Vaster,
vastest
«Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(
Actor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
CAT,
Cat in,
Cat Who,
curiosities,
curiosity,
Curiosity Killed the Cat,
for a while,
killed,
suspect,
The Cat,
while