Monday, February 10, 2020

A Curious Statement

"Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions."--Eric Hoffer in Reflections on the Human Condition

If you find that you have lost the innate curiosity that is characteristic of all young children then ask yourself why you are no longer curious and you will instantly regain what was seemingly lost.

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