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  • Curiosity Quote #1

    Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

    Douglas Copeland

  • Curiosity Quote #2

    After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I'd study it. That I'd become the world's leading authority on it. March, that was a red-letter day for humanity. What a field! What a domain! Titanic! Promethean! I trembled before it. I was inspired. I couldn't sleep. Ideas came in the night and I wrote them down, volumes of them. Strange that no one had gone after this systematically.

    Oh, melancholy, yes, but not modern boredom.

    Saul Bellow

  • Curiosity Quote #3

    All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly hove into view. She lighted weightlessly on the head of a bankside purple thistle and began emptying the seedcase, sowing the air with down.

    The lighted frame of my window filled. The down rose and spread in all directions, wafting over the dam’s waterfall and wavering between the tulip trunks and into the meadow. It vaulted towards the orchard in a puff; it hovered over the ripening pawpaw fruit and staggered up the steep faced terrace. It jerked, floated, rolled, veered, swayed. The thistle down faltered down toward the cottage and gusted clear to the woods; it rose and entered the shaggy arms of pecans. At last it strayed like snow, blind and sweet, into the pool of the creek upstream, and into the race of the creek over rocks down. It shuddered onto the tips of growing grasses, where it poised, light, still wracked by errant quivers. I was holding my breath. Is this where we live, I thought, in this place in this moment, with the air so light and wild?

    The same fixity that collapses stars and drives the mantis to devour her mate eased these creatures together before my eyes: the thick adept bill of the goldfinch, and the feathery coded down. How could anything be amiss? If I myself were lighter and frayed, I could ride these small winds, too, taking my chances, for the pleasure of being so purely played.

    The thistle is part of Adam’s curse. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee.” A terrible curse: But does the goldfinch eat thorny sorrow with the thistle or do I? If this furling air is fallen, then the fall was happy indeed. If this creekside garden is sorrow, then I seek martyrdom.

    I was weightless; my bones were taut skins blown with buoyant gas; it seemed that if I inhaled too deeply, my shoulders and head would waft off. Alleluia.

    Annie Dillard

  • Curiosity Quote #4

    All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than by some method that leads from narrower questions to broader questions. It is hard to satisfy the curiosity of a child, and even harder to satisfy the curiosity of a scientist, and methods that meet curiosity with satisfaction are thus not apt to foster the development of the child into the scientist. I don't advocate turning all children into professional scientists, although I think there would be advantages if all adults retained something of the questioning attitude, if their curiosity were less easily satisfied by dogma, of whatever variety.

    Marston Bates

  • Curiosity Quote #5

    All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more

    Nicholas Boothman

  • Curiosity Quote #6

    All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

    Criss Jami

  • Curiosity Quote #7

    All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

    William Shakespeare

  • Curiosity Quote #8

    All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

    C.J. Mahaney

  • Curiosity Quote #9

    All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

    Thomas Swick

  • Curiosity Quote #10

    Although each of us has the right to believe we are suffering, I suppose, there is a definite and ultimately essential distinction to be made between actual suffering, its cause and resolution, and invented or imagined suffering.

    Darrell Calkins

  • Curiosity Quote #11

    Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

    C.S. Lewis

  • Curiosity Quote #12

    Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

    Wendell Berry

  • Curiosity Quote #13

    Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

    Paul C. Nagel

  • Curiosity Quote #14

    An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

    Pat Conroy

  • Curiosity Quote #15

    And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

    Ned Vizzini

  • Curiosity Quote #16

    And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved.

    What else is going on right this minute while ground water creeps under my feet? The galaxy is careening in a slow, muffled widening. If a million solar systems are born every hour, then surely hundreds burst into being as I shift my weight to the other elbow. The sun’s surface is now exploding; other stars implode and vanish, heavy and black, out of sight. Meteorites are arcing to earth invisibly all day long. On the planet, the winds are blowing: the polar easterlies, the westerlies, the northeast and southeast trades. Somewhere, someone under full sail is becalmed, in the horse latitudes, in the doldrums; in the northland, a trapper is maddened, crazed, by the eerie scent of the chinook, the sweater, a wind that can melt two feet of snow in a day. The pampero blows, and the tramontane, and the Boro, sirocco, levanter, mistral. Lick a finger; feel the now.

    Spring is seeping north, towards me and away from me, at sixteen miles a day. Along estuary banks of tidal rivers all over the world, snails in black clusters like currants are gliding up and down the stems of reed and sedge, migrating every moment with the dip and swing of tides. Behind me, Tinker Mountain is eroding one thousandth of an inch a year. The sharks I saw are roving up and down the coast. If the sharks cease roving, if they still their twist and rest for a moment, they die. They need new water pushed into their gills; they need dance. Somewhere east of me, on another continent, it is sunset, and starlings in breathtaking bands are winding high in the sky to their evening roost. The mantis egg cases are tied to the mock-orange hedge; within each case, within each egg, cells elongate, narrow, and split; cells bubble and curve inward, align, harden or hollow or stretch. And where are you now?

    Annie Dillard

  • Curiosity Quote #17

    And what cats have to tell
    on each return from hell
    is this: that dying is what the living do,
    that dying is what the loving do,
    and that dead dogs are those who do not know
    that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

    Alastair Reid

  • Curiosity Quote #18

    And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

    John Updike

  • Curiosity Quote #19

    Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

    H.W. Brands

  • Curiosity Quote #20

    Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

    Patrick Rothfuss

  • Curiosity Quote #21

    Appreciation, affection, focus and intention fill up the space of self-reflection, and one loses oneself in the engagement. And what a relief it is when you get there.

    Darrell Calkins

  • Curiosity Quote #22

    Are you missing the library again? Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.
    Kendra turned to face her brother. You caught me, she congratulated him. I'm reading.
    I bet the librarians back home are panicking. Summer vacation, and no Kendra Sorenson to keep them in business. Have they been sending you letters?
    Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment.
    Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?
    I bet you'll tell me.
    'If you're reading this, you are one.'
    You're a riot. Kendra turned back to the journal, flipping to a random page.
    Seth took a seat on his bed across from her. Kendra, seriously, I can sort of see reading a cool book for fun, but dusty old journals? Really? Has anybody told you there are magical creatures out there? He pointed out the window.
    Has anybody told you some of those creatures can eat you? Kendra responded. I'm not reading these just for fun. They have good info.
    like what? Patton and Lena smooching?
    Kendra rolled her eyes. I'm not telling. You'll end up in a tar pit.
    There's a tar pit? he said, perking up. Where?

    Brandon Mull

  • Curiosity Quote #23

    Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.

    Steeven Shaw

  • Curiosity Quote #24

    As I’ve mentioned too often before, we are governed, and specifically our physicality is governed, by fairly strict rules, which are easily observable in nature. We have some freedom to manipulate some of these, but really not by very much. Everyone knows, or at least has the information, about the horrors of ignoring health issues and expecting your body to do what you want it to do with the least investment in it. Another “authority” telling you what you should do is not the answer.

    Darrell Calkins

  • Curiosity Quote #25

    As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

    Doris Kearns Goodwin

  • Curiosity Quote #26

    As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Curiosity Quote #27

    As we move through time, we age, with the general speed of everything and the chaos that that produces in us in the form of anxiety, fear, confusion and negotiating an already-existing war, there is little time and space left to adjust to our developing relationship to yearning. In other words, as our needs are met, the question answered, we don’t then move on to the next question.

    Darrell Calkins

  • Curiosity Quote #28

    As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

    Joe Cawley

  • Curiosity Quote #29

    Be curious! Be crazy with passion! Astound yourself!

    Debasish Mridha M.D.

  • Curiosity Quote #30

    Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

    Debasish Mridha

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