He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Quote by William Wirt

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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if...

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if...

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if...

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if...

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing...

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing...

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

People die when curiosity goes

People die when curiosity goes

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity yes, indeed.

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity yes, indeed.

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of...

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of...

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down...

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down...

You know what a woman's curiosity is

You know what a woman's curiosity is

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a...

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a...

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk....

Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk....

Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity...

Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity...

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and...

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and...

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed...

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed...

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat still had eight lives left.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Curiouser and curiouser!

Curiouser and curiouser!

May have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious...

May have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious...

You should never doubt what no one is sure about

You should never doubt what no one is sure about