Jostein Gaarder Quotes

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

A Socrates in every classroom.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Socrates was executed … not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

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.