Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

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

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The question is just as important as the answer.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.