Quotes of: Intellectual-curiosity Keyword

Curiosity killed the cat.

Traditional

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really kno...

Sydney J. Harris

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Anne Sweeney

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible plan...

Waterland

Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovate in language is crucial to every scientific advance,...

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than b...

The Nature Of Natural History

When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul. Cur...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For ...

Partings

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays fo...

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it...

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Michael Korda

Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.

Her Dark Curiosity

A man should stay alive if only out of curiosity.

Yiddish

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

Paul Johnson

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

The Archived

Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.

The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

Eve Arnold

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

H. G. Bissinger

Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.

Elizabeth Newton

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict." -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

The Power of Curiosity: How to Have Real Conversations that create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it o...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle