What is the meaning of ‘gossip?’ Doesn’t it originate with sympathy, an interest in one’s neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one’s self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
Curiosity
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world’s most important discoveries.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.