Norton Juster Quotes

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

If you would judge, understand.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

History will show you not all the answers, but it’ll tell you a lot of the questions to ask.

It's funny: now we're starting to do interviews, we've just begun to understand what we're doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives.

Details - that's what it comes down to, so you're always learning more about a play or a concept.

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

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.