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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. – S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. – Bible

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