#curiosity

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. ↗

— Linus Pauling

#curiosity #greatest #life #satisfaction #sources

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. ↗

— Henry James

#life

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#beauty

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. ↗

— Saul D. Alinsky

#life #passion #beauty

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ↗

— Anatole France

#teaching #art

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#curiosity #journalist #writing #art

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity. ("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume") ↗

— Chris Bell

#horror #reality #truth #death

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ↗

— Arnold Edinborough

#education

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. ↗

— Philo of Alexandria

#education #learning #education

…the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#enthusiasm #motivation #education