Alain de Botton Quotes About Curiosity

Quotes about: Curiosity

• Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

  Alain de Botton

  Friendship, Travel, Company We Keep

• It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

  Alain de Botton

  Company We Keep, Expectations, Curiosity

• 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.

  Alain de Botton

  Distance, Curiosity, Might

• Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

  Alain de Botton

  Ignorance, Dark, Knowing

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