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| Av alla ljud här på jorden, både i stan och på landet, finns det få som väcker sådan nyfikenhet som en knackning på dörren. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Av två onda ting väljer jag alltid det jag inte prövat. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Det är ett mirakel att nyfikenheten kan överleva dagens utbildning. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Det är roligt att se på TV, men den kan aldrig ersätta det mycket äldre nöjet att kika genom ett nyckelhål. | Birgitte Bardot (1934-) |
| Jag ska dö nyfiken. Är jag inte nyfiken kan jag lika gärna vara död. | Gunilla Dahlgren |
| Jag är inte nyfiken. Bara jag får veta allt. | Gunilla Dahlgren |
| Kvinnor vill ogärna sälja sig men är å andra sidan nyfikna att få veta om någon vill köpa. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Man ska inte dö nyfiken. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Människans största tillgång är nog nyfikenheten. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Nyfiken i en strut. Öppna på locket så hoppar han ut. | Svensk barnvisa |
| Nyfikenhet är att villigt, stolt och ivrigt erkänna sin okunnighet. | S. L. R. |
| Nyfikenhet är svartsjukans dotter. | Jean-Baptiste Molière |
| Nyfikenheten är svartsjukans dotter. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| Om jag var tvungen att välja mellan två onda ting väljer jag alltid det jag inte tog förra gången. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Der findes to slags nysgerrighed: den ene skyldes egoisme, som driver os til at erfare, hvad der måske kan gavne os; den anden skyldes stolthed, som udspringer af driften til at vide, hvad andre ikke ved. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) |
| Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. | Arnold Edinborough (1922-1990) |
| I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - it's eerie. | Christy Turlington (1969-) |
| Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back | Eugene O'Neill |
| Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. | Eugene S. Wilson |
| A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. | Frederick Seitz |
| People die when curiosity goes | Graham Swift (1949-) |
| Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing | James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) |
| Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. | James Stephens (1882-1950) |
| Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. | Richard Whately (1787-1863) |
| Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it sure has earned a lot of people graduate degrees | Robyn Irving |
| Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot | Samuel Horsley |
| Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. | William Wirt |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we have ceas | Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) |
| Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. | Leo Burnett (1891-1971) |
| Curiouser and curiouser! | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. | Arnold Edinborough (1922-1990) |
| Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back | Eugene O'Neill |
| 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 (1879-1955) |
| Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. | William Wirt |
| Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| You know what a woman's curiosity is | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| 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 (1868-1930) |
| Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Curiouser and curiouser! | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. | Graham Swift (1949-) |
| People die when curiosity goes | Graham Swift (1949-) |
| Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it sure has earned a lot of people graduate degrees | Robyn Irving |
| Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. | William Arthur Ward |
| Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| may have killed the cat; more likelythe cat was just unlucky, or else curiousto see what death was like, having no causeto go on licking paws, or fatheringlitter on litter of kittens, predictably. | Alastair Reid |
| Curiosity has its own reason for existence. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - it's eerie. | Christy Turlington (1969-) |
| Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. | Clarence Day (1874-1935) |
| The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back | Eugene O'Neill |
| 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 (1868-1930) |
| Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left. | Mark Woods (1969-) |
| A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it sure has earned a lot of people graduate degrees | Robyn Irving |
| Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |