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

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

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.

I give opinions, not advice.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

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

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I like definitive things.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Many admire, few know.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

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

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.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

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

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

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

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.