Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, Ignorance did

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An awesome collection of quotes on the virtues of curiosity, thanks to my Facebook friend Axiom Seer!

“Let History be your Teacher and Curiosity your Guide.” 
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Dorothy Parker

“Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.”
S. Leonard Rubinstein

“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions acheter viagra.”
Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”
Richard Whately

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.”
Smiley Blanton

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Marie Curie

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.”
Arnold Edinborough

“Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was: curiosity.”
Jim Morrison

“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
Dr. Linus Pauling

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
Samuel Johnson

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Voltaire

“Only the curious have something to find.”
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“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens

“Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.”
Saint Augustine of Hippo

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
Albert Einstein

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