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#curiosity

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I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.


Bruce Springsteen


#album cover #anything #around #attention #band

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo.


Lorii Myers


#confidence #courage #creativity #determination #focus-curiosity

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.


Augustine of Hippo


#curiosity #discipline #education #education

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?


Jim Elliot


#education #knowledge #education

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?


C.S. Lewis


#curiosity #life #age

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.


Umberto Eco


#curiosity #knowledge #seduction #vice #love

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.


Stephen Fry


#willful-ignorance #food

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.


Bryant McGill


#courage #curiosity #courage

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.


Oscar Wilde


#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.


William Samuel Johnson


#first #generous #great #last #minds






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