The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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