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“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”
— Aphra Behn, Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688)
“Curiosity responsible for cat needing nine lives.”
— Charlie Chan, Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom, Wildside Press LLC, 2001, p. 33.
“So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.”
— René Descartes, Le Discours de la Méthode (1637).
“Platon estime qu'il y ait quelque vice d'impiété à trop curieusement s'enquerir de Dieu et du monde.”
— Plato holds that there is some vice of impiety in enquiring too curiously about God and the world.
“I have perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 73.
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
— Steven Wright, The Book of Uncommon Quips and Quotations, Pustak Mahal, 1 January 2003, p. 26.

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