Susanne Langer Quotes

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

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

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

You always need to be curious and study.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.