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wrote, "The underlying trouble with conversation is lack of curiosity." To be a really good conversationalist, one must be an interesting person. But an interesting person can only be one who is interested in many things. The hero of a novel who found his wife becoming more and more dull remarked, "It was a long time before I realized that she had no intellectual curiosity." Curiosity is not a profound sense, but it is a kind of self-starter toward knowledge, learning, and wisdom. I cannot help feeling that a person who is not interested in learning more and more about many things, or at least about some thing, resembles a mere vegetation, a mushroom, and that a person who is intellectually alert, who knows what is going on, who probes into things, who is ever in quest of better knowledge, acts very much in the image of the God who made him. It was this God, our Lord Jesus, who told the stern Parable of the Talents. |
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