Curiosity Drives Wisdom...

You may think, yeah, duh...   But it's that simple.  If you're curious, you're going to learn, and when you learn, you will end up with more things to be curious about, and then learn more.  It snowballs.  The difference between incredible genius's and the average public is the fact that the average public has lost it's curiousity.  They just accept the way things are without an explanation.  How does my TV work... 'who cares as long as I can watch the game.'   Or perhaps they accept an explanation without verification 'uh, there are elves in there that constantly shoot paintballs at the screen.'  Okay...  On the other hand if someone is curious how it works, they will ask questions, do research, maybe take it apart, until they've learned how it works.   At that point, who knows, maybe they'll say: "that's so simple!" or "that's a stupid way of doing it!" and either way say "now that I understand how it works, I can make it better, give it more resolution, make it thinner, or do it a completely different way, rather than use elves and paint, I'll use electrons in a vacuum with magnetic fields...'  The key is, wisdom grows in proportion to curiousity, and if you allow your curiousity to stagnate, so will your wisdom.   Curiousity may have killed the cat, but the cat wasn't meant to know that much... besides, it doesn't say anything about humans.