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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.

— Jack Vance The Five Gold Bands (1950)

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My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life.

Maske: Thaery (1976)

Now, as to the persistence of superstition, only an impoverished mind considers itself the repository of absolute knowledge.

Future Tense (1964)

He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)

“Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

Demon Princes (1964)

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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

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Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

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