Source: G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
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Tags: Civilization Quotes, Curiosity Quotes, G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity – Ellen Parr
We should never, ever stop being curious about what we’re made of.
Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it’s all about.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession, and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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