Andy Stanley Quotes

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

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

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.