“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
“...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.”
“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
“Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.”
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. ”
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”