#curiosity

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ↗

— William Wirt

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. ↗

— R. D. Laing

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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. ↗

— Freya Stark

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No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included. ↗

— Richard Matheson

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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge? ↗

— Jim Elliot

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