#curiosity

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#aspects #creative #creative people #curiosity #great

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. ↗

— John Burroughs

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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#intelligence

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. ↗

— Bryan Magee

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Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. ↗

— Saul D. Alinsky

#life #passion #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

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