Florentijn Hofman Quotes

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

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

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

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

My only weapon is the question.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

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

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

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

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.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

The question is just as important as the answer.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

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.