Incuriosity Quotes & Sayings

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay ... cats were all about using people — Jonathan Franzen

But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has been done here? Why was I so sorry to part with life? There was something in this life I didn't and still don't understand... — Leo Tolstoy

You gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If asked for an opinion we'll say what we think. And by "what we think" I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that's what our communication boils down to. — Aaron Blaylock

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened. — Caitlin Moran

Also, Ares developed a serious fear of jars. I think I'm going to get him a nice one for Christmas. — Rick Riordan

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion. — Frank Barron

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well. — Sam Walton

When I was old enough to read and write, my parents gave me an eraser board that I kept in my room at all times. The idea was that when frustrated, I, Lily, should write down words on the board to express my feelings instead of letting she-devil Shrilly express them through shrieking. It was supposed to be a therapeutic tool. — Rachel Cohn

And so Rebecca consigned herself to, not ignorance, but a judicious incuriosity: she decided, for the time being, to live with the constant, cryptic reminders that the scope of another person's soul could never be fully surveyed. — Dexter Palmer

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea. — St. Lucia

tread carefully
into my life, my dear.

the currents
are strong.

you will get lost
in this
warm ocean
of my skin. — Sanober Khan

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none. — Ray Bradbury

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections. — Baris Gencel

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. — Ann Bancroft

There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans. — Warren Eyster

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing. — Umberto Eco

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. — Winston Churchill

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. — Stephen Fry

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience. — Victor Gollancz

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow