Wislawa Szymborska quote: "Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balan...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public educatio...
J. IRWIN MILLER

The 'fire' present in our body helps in keeping us alive. Therefore, to maintain the required body-t...
SAM VEDA

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that d...
GALEN ROWELL

What's really scary about the original 'Blair Witch' is that it doesn't really answe...
ADAM WINGARD

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous ...
GLORIA GAITHER

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to ma...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It ...
KEN CAMINITI

I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods,...
ERICA DURANCE

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of ...
ZOE WEIL

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border f...
FRED KAVLI

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthrou...
REM KOOLHAAS

We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom...
DEYTH BANGER

G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an e...
ELIZABETH WARREN

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
JACOB LEW

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in ...
BRITTANY MURPHY

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil...
A. R. RAHMAN

..."SORRY."...
Just doesn't cut it anymore!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movie...
VIRAT KOHLI

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn&...
MATT GROENING

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that...
ALEX TREBEK

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have ...
CAROL ALT

FaraWell or Goodbye it really doesn't matter it shows one magic. If you find it, you are a magician!
DEYTH BANGER

I am a person who has to move. I'm like a shark - if it doesn't move, it dies. I'm in go...
CHARO

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty...
MICHAEL ARNDT

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think t...
MICHAEL STUHLBARG

I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowle...
RICHARD PRESTON

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn...
ERIK ERIKSON

It was important for us to get that early lead then maintain it throughout the game.
JOE BALOGH

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stu...
TOM FORD

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odys...
RAYMOND QUENEAU

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
CONAN O'BRIEN

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get wh...
HAL BOYLE

Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any dif...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anyth...
SHAKIRA

Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exc...
NICK DENTON

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn ...
WAYNE DYER

Ask any cop, and they'll assure you that it doesn't exactly take a forensics team from NCIS ...
MIKE GALLAGHER

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
PADDY CONSIDINE

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is ...
JOHN MADDEN

The biggest challenge in big data today is asking the right questions of data. There are so many que...
GURJEET SINGH

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover th...
IDINA MENZEL

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answ...
CRYSTAL REED

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intrigui...
ROGER EBERT

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
FRANK A. CLARK

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be ...
DAVE OBEY

Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the e...
BENMONT TENCH

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO

Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn'...
GIORGIO MORODER

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's ...
EMERIL LAGASSE

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yours...
BERNHARD GOETZ

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your sta...
HARVEY MACKAY

Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone ...
JENNIFER PAHLKA

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
BILL WATTERSON

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't delive...
HARRY BROWNE

It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlet...
JOHNNY WEIR

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to compla...
ROBERT A. COOK

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are p...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the sa...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

There's simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to s...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and ...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of ea...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a w...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the im...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip o...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world t...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single sto...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out ther...
MATT KEMP

Humans are moving the world out of its natural variability. I don't think there are any serious ques...
RICHARD ALLEY

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD

Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number soun...
RYAN HOLMES

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes peo...
DAVID LYNCH

Life doesn´t come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Pa...
PAULO COELHO

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going ...
SIMON CONWAY MORRIS

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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