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«CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, curiosity, cursed, cursed with, desire to know, female, insatiable, masculine, objectionable
«It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Children,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
desire to know, discrimination, excite, falsehoods
«I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.»
«Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it»
Author: William Haley
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
desire to know, ensure, ensures, ensuring, imbue, imbued
«The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the `basic needs' we have already discussed.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
connotative, desire to know, discussed, e'en, i.e., I E, striving
«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.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
desire to know, sorts, The Wish, various
«The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
abstaining, abstains, craving, cravings, desire to know, disappears, enjoyment, fades, fading away, sensual, supreme
«All men by nature desire to know.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Desire,
Mankind,
Nature
| Keywords:
desire to know
«But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.»
«I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
certainly, desire to know, destroyed, harlots
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