Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

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.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

To philosophize is to doubt.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

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