Intellectual Curiosity Quotes

“Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida maana shida ni kipimo cha akili, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima maana hekima ni ufunguo wa maamuzi mema na udadisi wa kiakili.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Whenever I hear people clucking about the decline of civilization, what's wrong with young people, how vulgar popular culture is, how confusing and frightening they find the internet, alarms go off. I know I'm around somebody whose hinges are rusting. Death will be bad enough, but for me, this early harbinger is more fearsome, because a part of one's spirit and openness and ability to learn and grow disappears.”
― Jon Katz, A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me

“Whenever I touch something very old (and I'm a person who likes to look with her hands), I imagine a kind of electric shock connecting me directly with whoever or whatever first held it, and whoever or whatever it once held.”
― Una Cruickshank, The Chthonic Cycle

“Don’t you want to pierce the veil of the gods? To look at that which cannot be seen because it cannot really exist, and yet does?”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Babel Project