22 Quotes by Ian Leslie

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care much. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Stephen Fry.

The only person or thing that can make you stupid, or incurious, is you.

Companies, and rulers, who learn to cultivate their conscious ignorance – to be fascinated, even obsessed, by what they don’t know – are the ones least likely to be caught unaware by change.

Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people’s hearts as well as engaging their minds.