#curiosity

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing. ↗

— James Kirkwood

#i #incredible #just #missing #out

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

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

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#friendship #knowledge #people #society #wisdom

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#children #curiosity #knowledge #intelligence

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. ↗

— Aaron Swartz

#curiosity #reading #intelligence

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one. ↗

— Kij Johnson

#love #love

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 would be curiosity. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#birth

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#being #being smart #belly #body #curiosity