Ransom Riggs Quotes

It's human nature to wonder.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.

He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

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.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.