There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. . Stephen Fry
Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.
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Roy T. Bennett
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back...
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Saul D. Alinsky
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
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Laurence Sterne
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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Norton Juster
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Albert Einstein
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
