"We go from curiosity to a search for communion."

Curiosity, Connection, Learning, Spirit

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"We go from curiosity to a search for communion."

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"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Sometimes you have to wonder until you start to wonder why you are even wondering."

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"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."

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"You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When we don't have the capacity for solitude, we turn to other people in order to feel less anxious or in order to feel alive. When this happens, we're not able to appreciate who they are. It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us feel less alone. But we're at risk, because actually it's the opposite that's true."

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"Rapture is costly, it usually means you are overlooking consequences."

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"I miss those days even though I wasn't alive."

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"Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one."

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"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."

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"Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical."

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"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it."

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"If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, 'I changed my mind."

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