daily inspirational quotes

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. ~Thomas Jefferson


My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ~William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918


If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ~Dennis Roth


The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ~Blaise Pascal, translated from French, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656


In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. ~Sydney Smith


If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "The Gun"


If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. ~Lord Sandwich

Great curiosity sayings, quotes and quotations

Great curiosity sayings, quotes and quotations

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold's curiosity quotes

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~inspirational sayings about Curiosity quotes by Ralph W. Sockman

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~curiosity quotes by Graham Greene

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
~motivational quotes about Curiosity by Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
~curiosity sayings by Albert Einstein

The Declaration of Independence - of the 13 United States of America We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
~Declaration of Independence's curiosity quotes

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.
~inspirational sayings about Curiosity quotes by Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
~curiosity quotes by S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~motivational quotes about Curiosity by Eleanor Roosevelt