
“How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.”
"Venetia Digby"
Brief Lives
“How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.”
"Venetia Digby"
Brief Lives
"Prayer of Ephrem" as translated in The Lenten Triodion (1978) by Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware, p. 69
Variant translations:
O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk, but give to me, your servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love. O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother: for you are blessed for ever and ever. Amen. O God, cleanse me, a sinner.
As translated in Who's Holding the Umbrella (1984) by William E. Yaeger, p. 70
Context: O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk, but give to me, Thy servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love. O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother: for blessed art Thou to the ages of ages. Amen. O God, cleanse me, a sinner.
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2021
“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
Irena Nalepa, a psychopharmacologist and long-time collaborator of Jerzy Vetulani. Jerzy Vetulani (1936–2017). O mentorze, przyjacielu i niepokornym wirtuozie naukowej narracji http://kosmos.icm.edu.pl/PDF/2018/233.pdf (in Polish), Kosmos, 67 (2), s. 233–244, 2018.
“Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech.”
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
“Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.”
In an interview for the George C. Marshall Institute http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=21 (3 September 1997)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)