Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To keep your thinking young, stay curious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be less curious about people,
and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein
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
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
I am one of those who think like Nobel,
that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
- Marie Curie
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
- Marie Curie
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician:
he is also a child confronting natural phenomena
that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
- Marie Curie
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women,
of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career.
Well, it has not been easy.
- Marie Curie
After all, science is essentially international,
and it is only through lack of the historical sense
that national qualities have been attributed to it.
- Marie Curie
I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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