Curious
Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
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Curious Quotations
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt Disney
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
Curious Translations
curious in Afrikaans is nuuskierig
curious in Danish is nysgerrig
curious in Dutch is typisch, curieus, vreemd
curious in Finnish is kummallinen
curious in Italian is memorabile, curioso
curious in Norwegian is nyskjerrig
curious in Portuguese is curioso
curious in Spanish is curioso
curious in Swedish is underlig, konstig, nyfiken
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