#curiosity

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

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

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway. ↗

— Myles Horton

#creativity #curiosity #education #change

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#curiosity

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#cats #curiosity #curious #follow #good

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. ↗

— Martha Beck

#curiosity #genuine #meet #people #real

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. ↗