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Richard Whately
: Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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Flotsam from his childhood are rising through his attention. He's remembering the skin of an apple, bursting with nebulae, a look into curved reddening space.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
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George Santayana :
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Italo Calvino :
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
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Lord Byron :
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That low vice, curiosity!
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Albert Einstein :
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Never lose a holy curiosity.
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Thomas Hobbes :
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Akio Morita :
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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