Garry Winogrand Quotes

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

Every answer will make more questions

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.