Voltaire Quotes

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Replace judgment with curiosity.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.

You can tell the depth of a person based on the quality of the questions they ask. We can measure the depth of humanity by a similar method. Space compels us to ask deeper questions.

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

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

The question is just as important as the answer.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.