Definition of Curiosity

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Curiosity

The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.

Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.

That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.

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Curiosity Quotations

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
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

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Curiosity Translations

curiosity in Dutch is nieuwsgierigheid, weetgierigheid
curiosity in Latin is curiositas
curiosity in Norwegian is nyskjerrighet
curiosity in Portuguese is curiosidade
curiosity in Spanish is curiosidad, curiosidad
curiosity in Swedish is nyfikenhet

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