#curiosity

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

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#life

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

— Kij Johnson

#love #love

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science. ↗

— James Bridie

#science #science

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times. ↗

— Bernard Beckett

#curiosity #fear #fragile #optimism #spirit

The knowledge of all things is possible ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#curiosity #knowledge #learning #knowledge