We can write and blog and think and talk about people, but if we find ourselves curious about ideas, we’ll have so much more to share.
Madame Curie’s quote reminds me of a similar one from Eleanor Roosevelt, who said (bonus quote!), “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
— Marie Curie
Source: “Science Quotes by Marie Curie.” Marie Curie Quotes. Todayinsci, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2015. [the website cites the following source for this particular quote: as quoted in Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard, Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (2000), 150.]
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Book Discussion – The Art of Memoir
Do you read or write memoir? If so, you’ll enjoy the book discussion of Mary Karr’s recent release The Art of Memoir. I’m posting a new set of questions on Tuesdays.
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