
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
Attributed
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 335.
General Quotes
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
Attributed
Source: Dragon's Egg (1980), Chapter 1, “Prologue” Section 4 (p. 7)
“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
“Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.”
Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 6 (p. 65)
“The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”
Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 60)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis