A Quote by Terry Pratchett

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Harry Lorayne

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

Michael J. Fox

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.

Mark Forsyth

Curiosity killed the cat.

Eugene O'Neill

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Steven Wright

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

C. J. Cherryh

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

Studs Terkel

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Holly Black

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Eugene O'Neill

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.

Tamora Pierce

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

Kate Morton

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

Stephen King

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Kim Harrison

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

David Attenborough

I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity kindled and nurtured? The unfairness is horrifying when it is properly understood as an unfairness meted out on children, on infants, on babies.

Zia Haider Rahman

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

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