Stefan Zweig Quotes

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

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

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.

My only weapon is the question.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

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.

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

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

I love to doubt as well as know.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our own conclusions, and sometimes depart from the pack, sometimes move away from the tribe.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.