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.
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
