“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.” MadeSometimesMightHugeDistanceCuriosityChainsBluntExtendingHub Author:Alain de Botton
“I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.” YearsMadeNextExistenceMinutesAwarenessOne DayCuriosityImpossibilityOne Minute Author:Emile M. Cioran
“When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” PeopleIfsMadeCompanyOfficeMessagesBiggerCuriosityOpeningChainsGiantsSmallestDollsDwarfs Author:David Ogilvy
“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.” HumansMadeHandsFeltDifferencesHuman BeingsAnswersAnimalBrainCuriositySizeRespectable Book:Foundation's Edge Source: Foundation's Edge