Cornelia Funke Quotes

I love to doubt as well as know.

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.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

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.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

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

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

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

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Question everything!

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)

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.