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
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 […]
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.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.
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.
