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Quotes About Curiosity

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
~ Michel de Montaigne
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.
~ Milan Kundera
the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
~ Mitch Albom
Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.
~ Nicolas Provost
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
~ Pliny the Elder
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
~ Pliny the Elder
I meddled in things that man must leave alone
~ R. C. Sherriff
Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?
~ Rachel Vincent
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who knows why men do anything?
~ Richard Adams
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
~ Robert Browning
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
~ Horace
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
~ Horace Mann
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.
~ James M. Barrie
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
~ Jim Goad
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe