Up: [[Curiosity]] > [!Orbit] [[Rumi]] > Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment. > [!Orbit] [[Rumi]] > Mysteries are no to be solved: >the eyes goes blind >when it only wants to see why. > [!Orbit] Dorothy Parker > The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. > [!Orbit] Vladimir Nabokov > Curiosity…is insubordination in its purest form. > [!Orbit] James Stephen’s > Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. > [!Orbit] Albert Einstein > Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles. > [!Orbit] Albert Einstein > The most important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. > [!Orbit] Albert Einstein > I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. > [!Orbit] Zora Neale Hurston > Research is formalized curiosity. > [!Orbit] Elizabeth Gilbert > What is creative living? Any life that is driven more by curiosity than fear. > [!Orbit] George Carlin in *Brain Droppings* > Some people see things that are and ask, “Why?” > Some people dream of things that never were and ask, “Why not?” > Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that shit. > [!Orbit] Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman in *A Curious Mind* > Using curiosity to disrupt your own point of view is almost always worthwhile, even when it doesn’t work out the way you expect. (p. 63) > [!Orbit] Riley Taylor, a friend’s son when he was four or five years old > You can only understand as much as you can imagine. So if you can’t imagine really big, you can’t ever see really big. > [!Orbit] Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman in *A Curious Mind: The secret to a bigger life* > Being curious and asking questions creates engagement. Using curiosity to disrupt your own point of view is almost always worthwhile, even when it doesn’t work out the way you expect. (p. 63)