Oscar WildeThe public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. In the words of Mark Twain, “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” In other words, we can be intrigued by any new fact we come across but we seldom stop to consider the value of the information we learn. Most of us would like to know everything at once and then we would never need to learn anything ever again. We might be able to store lots of facts about ourselves and our lives but there is no way we could remember them all.
The key to learning anything valuable is finding out what it is that you want to learn and then only thinking about it for a short period at a time. Otherwise, you will spend most of your time forgetting what you already know and trying to remember something that's really not worth remembering.
Source: The Soul Of Man Under Socialism, And Selected Critical Prose
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