Curiosity/brain

Famous quotes containing the words curiosity and/or brain:

“There are several sorts of curiosity: a curiosity of self-interest, for example, which makes us desire to learn things that may be useful to us; and one of pride, which proceeds from an itch to know more than other people.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“An honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)