Mosab Hassan Yousef Quotes

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

My family called me the 'why kid' growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I was one of those annoying kids that was always like, 'But why?'

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

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

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

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

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

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

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

My only weapon is the question.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

I have a curious mind.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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.