Errol Morris Quotes

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

I really like research.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

I think I'm a good fact finder.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Without theory, there are no questions.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

I am a very curious person; I'll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

To philosophize is to doubt.