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Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 12, 2025| 2 Comments »

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real.  As they become “producers ” they fall away from exploration and start fishing for the right answers with little thought.  They believe they must always be right, so they quickly forget mistakes and how these mistakes were made.  They believe that the only good response from the teacher is “yes,” and that a “no” is defeat.
     ―     John C. Holt,
From his book:  “How Children Fail“
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Holy Curiosity

Posted in Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Be a loner.  That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth.  Have holy curiosity.  Make your life worth living.
    —     Albert Einstein
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Still Curious

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , on January 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Guys have underestimated me my entire life.  And for years, I never understood why.  It used to really bother me.  But then one day, I was driving my little boy to school, and I saw this quote by Walt Whitman, and it was painted on the wall there.  It said, ‘Be curious, not judgmental.’  I like that.
    —     Ted Lasso
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Characteristically Human Activities

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly unique human characteristic is the ability to associate abstractly and to reason.  Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species;  and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts — a somewhat broader range of subjects than is usually included under the “humanities.”  Indeed, in its common usage this very word seems to reflect a peculiar narrowness of vision about what is human.  Mathematics is as much a “humanity” as poetry.
    —    Carl Sagan
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Life’s Great Illusion

Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 28, 2023| 2 Comments »

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
    —     Stephen Hawking
[To append to Sacha Guitry’s quote:  “The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”  …And to my curiosity, if not my schooling.    —        kmab]
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But Not The Only One

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on April 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
    —     Samuel Johnson
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Unlimited Curiosity In Finite Time

Posted in Education, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I want to know what everything is, and nothing is;  the beauty of a note and the silence which surrounds it.  I like to know and understand myself, and those whom I meet, or nearly meet.  I am conscious that I will not always be conscious:  that my curiosity is unlimited but my time is finite, and I cannot waste a moment of it in acquiring things which will not make me richer in a way I value.
The amusing thing is many would consider me as living in la la land, where poetry is a secret form of currency, and music a mode of transport which might carry me to lands and vistas invisible to the naked eye:  to where angels might dwell and we begin to forgive and truly understand the love which passes all understanding.  I can live with the opinions of the “many”, but I cannot live without my imagination.”
One of the great temptations of life is to lose sight of the beauty of the whole, or the mystery of an instant amidst the mass of worries, jealousies and insecurities which crowd in on the average day, including mine, but while I have a breath to draw I will, whatever my circumstances, raise my eyes in wonder to the horizon and marvel at the miracle of consciousness.
    —     Peter Wells
Originally found at one of the blogs I follow:  Countingducks
Located at:  https://countingducks.wordpress.com
The specific post is:  A Matter Of Philosophy
https://countingducks.wordpress.com/2022/07/18/a-matter-of-philosophy/
[Please visit the original site if you have a few minutes to spare.  You’ll get hooked, too!    —    kmab]
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Not By The Fireside

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , on July 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.  Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.  One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    —     Eleanor Roosevelt
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Some Basic Virtues

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »

I believe in some basic virtues, you know?  Mercy, humility, curiosity, empathy.
     —     Anthony Bourdain
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Lingering Curiosity

Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , on April 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

A good scientist is a person in whom the childlike quality of perennial curiosity lingers on.  Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
    —    Frederick Seitz
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Franklin’s Creed

Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on March 4, 2012| 1 Comment »

You desire to know something of my Religion.  It is the first time I have been questioned upon it:  But I do not take your Curiosity amiss, and shall endeavour in a few Words to gratify it.  Here is my Creed:  I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe.  That He governs it by his Providence.  That he ought to be worshipped.  That the most acceptable Service we can render to him, is doing Good to his other Children.  That the Soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with Justice in another Life respecting its Conduct in this.  These I take to be the fundamental Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do, in whatever Sect I meet with them.  As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw, or is likely to see;  but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity:  tho’ it is a Question I do not dogmatise upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.  I see no harm however in its being believed, if that Belief has the good Consequence as probably it has, of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed, especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the Believers, in his Government of the World, with any particular Marks of his Displeasure.  I shall only add respecting myself, that having experienced the Goodness of that Being, in conducting me prosperously thro’ a long Life, I have no doubt of its Continuance in the next, tho’ without the smallest Conceit of meriting such Goodness.
    —    Benjamin Franklin
March 9, 1790
Letter to Ezra Stiles.  Franklin passed away in April, 1790
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