Edward Carey Quotes

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I feel curious about every situation I'm in.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I have, by nature, an analytical mind.

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I love to doubt as well as know.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…