Henry Moore Quotes

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

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.

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

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

Definition is the death of discovery.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

A university is supposed to show you ideas that offend you and make you feel uncomfortable,

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

No one ever died from an open mind.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.