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  • The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

  • 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.

  • Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

    Mother   Silly   Exercise  
  • Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  • Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

    "The Spark Lighting the Way" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.
  • The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

    Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”
  • Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

    "African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations". Book by George Yancy, p. 35, 1998.
  • I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

    "Guy Kawasaki: No 'Secret Sauce' for Tech Success". Interview with Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. June 1, 2012.
  • People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

    Reading   People   Parent  
  • Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

    Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

    "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.
  • Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.

    Robert W. Bly (2003). “Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words”, McGraw Hill Professional
  • My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

    "The “world’s most wanted hacker,” Kevin Mitnick, has gone straight (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. October 21, 2011.
  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

    Funny   Life   Wisdom  
  • Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

  • Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

  • Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

  • I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

    Love   Men   Class  
    Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam
  • One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

  • Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

    "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.
  • I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

  • Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

  • We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

    Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

    Hearing   Speak  
  • I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

  • The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

  • My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  • Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

    Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7523, Delphi Classics
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