Gerry Spence Quotes

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I love to doubt as well as know.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man’s foot and stops him forever from advancing.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

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.