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I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. -- Guy Kawasaki
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. -- Gordon Gee
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. -- William Lyon Phelps
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. -- Kevin Mitnick
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. -- Renee Fleming
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. -- Kevin Mitnick
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself. -- Siri Hustvedt
After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. -- Caroline Kennedy
Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity. -- Sam Wyly
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? -- Simon Hoggart
Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity? -- Ronald Reagan
The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity. -- Ronald Reagan
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. -- G. M. Trevelyan
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning. -- Chesley Sullenberger
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. -- Edith Wharton
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. -- Daniel Handler
Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline. -- Robert W. Bly
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. -- Oswald Chambers
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society. -- Timothy Gowers
My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history. -- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity. -- Ann Coulter
Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues. -- Joseph Conrad
We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment. -- Robert J. Dolan
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways. -- Edith Wharton
Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science. -- Eraldo Banovac
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity. -- Philip Athans
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. -- Tom Robbins
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. -- Kevin Mitnick
Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. -- Robert McKee
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician. -- G. H. Hardy
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility. -- Anthony Standen

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