#curiosity

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#ideas #music #new #new ideas #passion

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. ↗

— Ian Hacking

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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#poking #prying #purpose #research

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#enormous #excitement #flew #handkerchiefs #hats

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#appetite #around #art #booming #china

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ↗

— Steven Wright

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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#always #because #been #being #busy

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest. ↗

— Saul D. Alinsky

#dogma #irreverence #life