#curiosity

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love #lust-for-life #senses #death

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#discover #emotion #first #human #human mind

Love is three quarters curiosity. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#love #love is #quarters #three

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#education #formal #formal education #miracle #survives

And what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. ↗

— Alastair Reid

#curiosity #death #dogs #dying #life

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#delightful #driven #game #insatiable #our

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#build #curiosity #gets #going #i

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#always #curiosity #even #i #life

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#business #crowd #curiosity #curious #his