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
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 […]
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age. When the sense of curiosity has withered.
