#curiosity

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder… ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life. ↗

— Rhi Etzweiler

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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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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. ↗

— Harry Lorayne

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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed. ↗

— James C. Collins

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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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