“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.”
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 15, “The world was tired out with geological theories” (p. 153)
“Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
“Curiosity is the will to experiment creativity.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) La curiosità è la volontà di sperimentare creatività.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Eight, Symbolic Religious Communication, p. 147
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
Source: Works of Samuel Johnson
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
Context: The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.