Ingmar Bergman Quotes

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

I love to doubt as well as know.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

My only weapon is the question.

I was one of those annoying kids that was always like, 'But why?'

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

You doubt because you love truth.

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.