Tom Stoppard Quotes

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

I read, therefore, I matter.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

I'm just trying to matter.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.