A Quote by Red Skelton

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

Red Skelton

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Age Curiosity Glasses Greater Just Need Reached Than Vanity

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Red Skelton
American - Comedian
July 18, 1913 - September 17, 1997

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

Carolyn Heilbrun

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.

Margaret Whitlam

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Evelyn Waugh

Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.

Greg Proops

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

John Green

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Edmund Burke

Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Saint Augustine

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Blaise Pascal

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If you need your glasses to see, find a good optometrist who can outfit you with a great frame, thin lenses, and a high-quality anti-reflective coating.

Amy Webb

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.