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#curiosity

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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.


Rudyard Kipling


#crocodile #curiosity #greed #kite #greed

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.


Ted Allen


#cooking #cuisines #cultures #curiosity #guest

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

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

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.


George Eliot


#everyday-life #life






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