Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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

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

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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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.

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.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

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

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.