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Curiosity & Learning | BlueCapra

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” – Albert Einstein

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” – Sarah Caldwell

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.” – Samuel Johnson

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

Being curious and interested in learning all the time is one of the most important things in life.  You never get too old to learn.  One of the best ways to learn is by reading, since you take advantage of the knowledge gained by people you would never have contact with normally.

Many people purchase books.  After donating five boxes of books to Goodwill, I decided that it would be much cheaper and less storage intensive to borrow books from the local library.  I can get nearly any book I want, read it for up to nine weeks, and turn it back in so others can enjoy the book.  I take notes and transcribe those notes into Google Documents.  After reading some books, I have decided to purchase copies to keep, but that initial “test drive” provides me with a much larger source of books and knowledge than I would have if I purchased every book.  If you would like to purchase any books listed below, the links below will take you to Amazon.com.

Finished reading in 2011

Finished more than a year ago (2010 and older)

Anxious to start (very condensed; my current list is over 100 and growing nearly every day)


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