Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

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

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

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

Every answer will make more questions

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

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.

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

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.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions - that's behind my curiosity.

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.