| Curiosity and Wonder Quotations |
Cat Quotations |
| Curiosity killed the cat. |
Curiosity killed the cat. |
Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back.
Eugene O'Neill |
Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
E. E. Cummings |
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein |
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby. |
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain |
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein |
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Stephen Wright |
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France |
Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Cervantes |
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin |
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain |
Wonder implies the desire to learn.
Aristotle |
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Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
Johnny Carson |
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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein |
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire |
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We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne |
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All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
Arthur C. Clarke |
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