Anthony Eden Quotes

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The question is just as important as the answer.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

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

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.