The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Many admire, few know.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I don’t generally read reviews.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.