In plain words
Stay curious like you are hungry, and brave enough to look a little silly.
Where these words come from
- 92% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Stanford University commencement address, 2005 — Jobs quoted this as the closing line of the final Whole Earth Catalog (Whole Earth Epilog, 1974), crediting it to that source in the same breath.
- Stanford University commencement address
- 2005 · quoting the farewell line of the Whole Earth Catalog (1974)
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Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.
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Victor Hugo
PlatoI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.Louisa May AlcottThese are times in which a genius would wish to live.Abigail AdamsPhilosophy is the microscope of the thought.Victor Hugo