Brad Pitt Quotes

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I love to doubt as well as know.

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

To think critically is always to be hostile.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.

I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.

I'm blessed to be curious about things.

People are innately curious.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.