Neil Postman Quotes

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

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

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

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

We learn only to ask more questions.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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

The question is just as important as the answer.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.