It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Quotes tagged ‘Curiosity’
Somebody asked me if I was looking for something. I am looking for everything.
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
I don’t understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it’s all I’ve ever wanted. All I’ve ever known is about leaving or being left.
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
We’re all curious about what might hurt us.
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
— Plato, amazon.com
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good eith…
I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It’s an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.
I’m very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.
I think it’s foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life. Happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you’ve built up in their absence?
Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don’t have questions, you’ll never find answers.