Curiosity

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind - Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. It endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which spring from the cheerful willingness to let life take the forms it will - Alistair Cooke

Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it - Sudie Back

Be an interdisciplinary being, take interest in all UN and world affairs - Robert Muller

Anyone who stops learning is old. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. Henry Ford

A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they will regret the loss of their pleasing vision. Their love of the marvellous and supernatural, their curiosity with regard to future events, and their strong propensity to extend their hopes and fears beyond the limits of the visible world, were the principal causes which favoured the establishment of Polytheism. So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing, that the fall of any system of mythology will most probably be succeeded by the introduction of some other mode of superstition - Edward Gibbon,"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", 1776

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention - Aldous Huxley