curiosity

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven. [Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying.]

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious, both are disappointed.

I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid?

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.