Chris Ofili Quotes

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

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.

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

If we decline to become set in our ways, that's good. But it doesn't always feel good. It can be very challenging.

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

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

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.