The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.