Jacob Bronowski Quotes

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Question everything!

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I believe that people should be able to question things.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

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

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

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

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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