Nelson Goodman Quotes

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding