A Quote by Patricia Cornwell

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Patricia Cornwell

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Patricia Cornwell
American - Writer
Born: June 9, 1956

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

Nicholas A. Christakis

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Maya Angelou

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

I've always been really curious about the limits of human capability.

Tommy Caldwell

The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.

Christine Todd Whitman

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Bill Hybels

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Jeanette Winterson

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Eknath Easwaran

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

Stephen Hawking

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

Claire Tomalin

Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.

William A. Connelly

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.

Frederick Lenz

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.