Dorothy Parker Quotes

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If you don't know something, just go and ask.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

I keep six honest serving men.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Science is always inquiring.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I'm on a search for the truth.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

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

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.