Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
—Wislawa Szymborska when receiving the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature
It’s an unusual quote, but to me it means learning new things isn’t static. It stimulates our curiosity, keeps us searching and learning even more, and expands our minds and our horizons. One of the great joys in life.
November 20, 2022
new questions is the story of my life, I see something and the questions start popping, and google search is my best friend. it can be a quote like yours or a photo or a story and I always have more questions to answer
I know. I thought of you. 🙂
I believe I’ve learned more from doing life than (I ever did) sitting in a classroom. Every day’s a school day!
That’s what makes it so exciting. 🙂
I’m suddenly hearing a young child asking, “Why?” Over and over again. Maintaining the curiosity of child can keep you young forever.
Yes!
Yes, this quote is worded kind of srangely. But I agree with your interpretattion of it.
🙂
…and now-a-days Google is a necessity in my’ reference ‘book’
Bless the internet!
When developing a list, useful for therapy, of “basic emotions” we had the usual fear, anger, shame, joy etc… and then someone said: “we need to add curiosity. Audra, that’s your basic emotion.” I agreed.
I like that. And if curiosity is an emotion, then so is determination. That’s another big one for me.
I agree with Ginny, the quote is worded rather strangely. Your meaning makes more sense to me. I’m another one who turns to Google frequently when I have questions that need answers.
That’s the great thing about quotes, we can interpret them the way we want. 🙂
most of my googling is to “find a product” at the best deal, and in my neck of the woods, if I want to go check it out.
but sometimes my questions can never be answered via google because I’ve not got the right terminology or I’ve no idea where to start…
Sometimes it takes a lot of trial and error, and sometimes it may not be there.