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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
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Ellen Goodman
Viewed on January 13, 2010
Contribution #3746
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
Contribution #3735
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -
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Ron Sims Daily Wisdom
Henry Miller
Viewed on December 7, 2009
Contribution #3661
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Liberation Ecology
by Frances Moore Lappe
Page 115
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Contribution #3656
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
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The world has reasons that we will discover within our lifetime of search and analysis, and others that will remain mysterious even as we die; but until we expand our minds to the limit, we will never know what new understandings are possible. Attribute nothing to chance, any more than you would dismiss an event as ‘God’s will’.
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Daily Inspiration
Josh Mitteldorf
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May 31, 2009"
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Viewed on June 12, 2009
Contribution #3250
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ!
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.
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Dots and Lines
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Contribution #3069
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
"Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
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The World As I See It
Published in 1949
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Contribution #2401
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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"The Song of Courtesy"
Contribution #2187
You see but you do not observe.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Contribution #2115
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
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Who is wise? One who learns from all.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2030
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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Bentham
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Contribution #1710
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of 'human nature.
The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth.
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"Of course, let us have peace," we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... "
There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.
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No Bars to Manhood
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Contribution #1639
If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 183
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
, New York
, 2003
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Contribution #1607
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is educated.
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Dullard: someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!), but "that's funny..."
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
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Maria Mitchell
http://www.giga.usa.com
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #1125
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
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Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.
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Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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Germaine Greer
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #460
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
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Smiley Blanton
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #301
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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Space - the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Samuel Johnson
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #296
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Anatole France
Viewed on April 1, 2008
Contribution #285
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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What does curiosity look like in a person?
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