I don’t read my reviews. I do die inside when readers at book signings say they do not read history books but they like to read mine. Who brags about a lack of intellectual curiosity?
Curiosity Quotes
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
You know what a woman’s curiosity is. Almost as great as a man’s!
To go beneath the surface argues the curious – not the profound.
He that pryeth into every cloud may be struck with a thunderbolt.
Toynbee wrote the monumental “A Study of History,” a 12-volume project that consumed most of his life. At a 1961 press conference announcing the completion of the massive project, he was asked by a reporter, “What purpose has impelled you to devote thirty-five years of your life to this single great work.” Toynbee answered the […]
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested.
The main source of all technological achievements is the divine curiosity and playful drive of the tinkering and thoughtful researcher, as much as it is the creative imagination of the inventor.
