I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curiosity is one of those rare things that can make up for a lot of negative character traits in a person.
A sense of curiosity can help a dumb person seem and become smarter.
It can make a self-absorbed person seemed less self-absorbed, and over time it will actually chip away at that self-absorption as they begin to enjoy knowing more about other people and the world.
A sense of curiosity drags us out of the echo chamber of our heads as we learn more about the people in the world around us.
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