Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

Daniel Quinn
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  1. Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life. - Roy T. Bennett

  2. 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... - Saul D. Alinsky

  3. What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. - Laurence Sterne

  4. ... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. - Norton Juster

  5. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

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  2. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they...

  3. The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

  4. Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning?. .Very...

  5. You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives–and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?–your captivity and the captivity...

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