Joseph Joubert Quotes

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

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

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.

There are truths to be discovered, but they are complex and many-sided; the best way to get to them is by engaging contrary ideas in a manner approximating dialogue.

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

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

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.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

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

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

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.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

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

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

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

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.