Your opinion, what is curiosity?

Question

1) What is curiosity?
2) Is it good to be curious? When is it good, or bad to be curious?
3) The people that ask questions, is this good? Why?
4) Are people born curious, or are they later made curious?
5) Are all the people curious?
6) Should people be curious?
7) What does the idiom "curiosity killed the cat" mean?
8) What does it mean to be curious?

Please do as many as you can, I will be very grateful to see your opinions!
Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Curiosity is the quest for knowledge or information. Perhaps for us, with our intelligence, it is also the quest for wisdom. However we’re not the only ones who are curious, most life forms that have a brain and the capability to remember things to varying degrees, are curious.



Curiosity is vital to survival. It’s curiosity that makes you go out to find good places as food sources. Mobile life forms (mammals, insects, birds etc) use curiosity to find sources of food. Curiosity allows you find better ways of doing things. We’re not the only tool users there are a few other species who, through curiosity, find better ways to hunt or obtain food. Curiosity helps us find more effective ways to defend ourselves too. This is a quality that aids significantly in the survival of a species.



With regard to your questions …



1) I tried to answer above in terms of what curiosity is.



2) It is always good to be curious especially for us, for through curiosity we gain more skills, knowledge and wisdom. However curiosity has to be tempered with caution. Sometimes that which we happen to be curious about could be dangerous to our well being. It is not good to be curious without also being cautious.



3) I don’t understand your third question.



4) People, and most species with a brain are naturally curious, it’s built into the genes. So yes, curiosity is an inherent quality we are all born with. The problem with it is that if we allow it to go unchecked we may not survive long enough to learn anything so it’s important that as it grows we also grow caution. That’s why fear is another quality we are born with.



5) All people start with being curious, not all people remain really curious. If you’ve even had a child that keeps asking “Why” you can become very very frustrated in a short period of time because each subsequent “why” leads to an ever more profound question, eventually the tendency among many adults is to get so frustrated that they will admonish the kid to the point where the kid gets the message that being curious is not a good thing. The curiosity doesn’t die in that process, but it can be stifled so much that it becomes virtually useless.



6) Yes, peoples should be curious and if more were actively curious we’d live in a much better world because we’d tend to question more things and seek ever more wisdom in the process.



7) It’s a warning that you need to be careful. Cats are either sniffers or touchers. When a cat gets curious, and they all do, it will either examine the new thing initially with its nose to see if it smells safe or it examines it with a paw. The touchers are wiser because it keeps the animal back from the object and if something goes wrong it can pull back with minimal injury. A sniffer can ‘t pull back as easily without harm. I suppose a lot of cats, especially sniffers, probably have been killed because of their curiosity. But where the deaths most likely occur are in the young. It’s the young of a species where curiosity is really strong because it’s an excellent motivator to learn and gain experience, but at the same time young lack the wisdom and experience to be cautious and so are at the greatest risk.



8) Being curious means to have a need and a passion to explore things with a view to better understanding them and gaining ever more skills, knowledge and wisdom.



I hope this helps a little.

Answer 2

1) Curiosity is the natural human behavior to want to know something. Generally when someone want tell us something (either to protect us or to hide it from us) we keep pushing trying to find out.



2) Sometime it is okay to be curious. Being curious (at times) can help save someone's life.



3) I do not understand this question.



4) People are born curious, take babies for example.



5) Yes all people are curious, it is a natural human behavior.



6) Like in questions two, some times it is okay, so yes.



7) It means that cats are very curious creatures and that the if you are too curious that it can be a bad thing.



8) What does it mean to be curious? It means basically what I stated in questions one. That you want to find something out, even when someone says no.

Answer 3

1- something the mind craves to know, but each mind craves something different, at different times, curiosity is what I think is the brain craving in knowledge form.

2- it depends on the situation, if I was to be sitting in a classroom right now listening to a teachers speech about the book we are reading, then I feel curios what's next in the book, and that curiosity is tempting me during the lesson that would be a bad spot if you cannot control it. It's always a good thing to be curious, it means you're human and you think. though in times it is bad, it's always good.... I hope you know what I'm trying to say.

3- people who ask questions thirst for knowledge, for we humans know nothing. asking questions mean you want to know... doesn't matter what kind of question either.

4-we are not born curious, for at that stage we do not know what curiosity is, but we develop such thoughts and craves to know, when our minds develop.

5- doesn't matter who you are, you'll always be curious.

6- it's not a question if we should be curious, we are. it doesn't matter, nothing would exist without curiosity.

7-the cat was so curious, it killed itself.

8- to be curios is when you want, crave something that'll give you knowledge.

Answer 4

First, your knowledge is fairly incomplete. There used to be a document of a troop of Roman Soldiers suggested going for walks around the flooring (at chest stage because the street was once scale down) at an English (maybe Scottish) Castle. Just Google this it is going to arise. So a few stories are older than a few hundred years. Second, suppose it or no longer there's a option to compare this. If one takes the populace of the arena in say 1800 and takes the % of suggested ghost (as a % of the poulation) after which takes the populace of the arena within the caveman discipline one might quite simply see that the % (if the % had been to maintain regular) of ghost stories will have to be very a lot smaller. Also, earlier than written documents we don't have any option to understand if ghosts had been suggested. Of path this doesn't suggest that cave guy did not handiest see ghost that had been a few hundered years ancient. I spotted many solutions announcing that there soul/spirit has moved on via that point. OK, in the event you suppose the survival speculation this can be a feasible rationalization. If you suppose the ESP conception (one acquires knowledge by way of ESP after which initiatives/hallucinates a ghost to procedure the knowledge). Then you might suspect that this knowledge is saved someplace (reminiscence of a man or woman or society or within the surroundings) and that it is probably not unreasonable to feel that this knowledge may also be forgotten, erased, or taped over after a protracted sufficient interval of time simply as our written documents from Sumeria and Bablyon are rarely ideal and whole documents. I don't don't forget myself a debunker (and even skeptic) however I have many many disorders with EVP's as proof for something. If I recorded what gave the impression of an smart human voice responding to questions that used to be is a frequency that used to be past the capacity of the human vocal variety to make and the witnesses had been good revered and the entire research used to be video taped and the recording used to be on tape or a one time use CD (no longer an effectively edited virtual recorder) and exam of the usual tape and/or CD confirmed no proof of being altered then I might suppose that an EVP possibly proof of unexplained phenomena. It might nonetheless be feasible for this to be PK alternatively than a spirit however might be proof (to me) of whatever unexplained and potentially psychic. Recording that may be altered, that a human voice could make and that ought to more advantageous to listen to something are questionable at quality.

Answer 5

1) The desire to know more.

2)Yes, it is good when it expands your mind, bad when the outcome is negative.

3) Good....makes them more knowledgable.

4)Curiosity is inate, babies are curious by nature, this is how they develop and learn right from wrong.

5)Yes

6)yes

7)It means the cat's curiosity led to a negative affect ie; jumping off a skyscraper to see what would happen, he died.

8) same as your first question.