Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Interpretation
Curiosity drives great minds and is essential throughout life.
This quote by Samuel Johnson emphasizes the vital role that curiosity plays in the minds of intelligent and generous individuals. It suggests that a profound desire to learn and explore is the fundamental passion that shapes their thoughts and actions from the beginning to the end of their lives.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech about the importance of lifelong learning.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.
Never did a great man hate good wine.
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didnβt try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. β¦ The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted
Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.
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