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Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

— Stella Benson I Pose (1915)

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Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

The Venture of Rational Faith (1908)

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people — the autobiographists and the biographists.

Pipers and a Dancer (1924)

She specialised in feminism, and in her eyes to be a woman was in itself a good argument.

I Pose (1915)

The gardener was one of those who are never surprised without being thunderstruck.

I Pose (1915)

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

The Little World (1925)

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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

Jack Vance The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

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