A Quote by Robertson Davies

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

Robertson Davies

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Cement Curiosity Holds Part Society Together

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Robertson Davies
Canadian - Novelist
August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

Cornel West

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

Yasser Arafat

Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.

Robertson Davies

Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our taking when in need - that holds our society together. We work, we build our society, and we share in its prosperity.

Chuka Umunna

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

Jeremy Irons

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

Tim Huelskamp

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

Peter Drucker

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Max Eastman

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

Peter Farb

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Jon Katz

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

Jeff Koons

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

Serge Haroche

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy.