Ken Kesey Quotes

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

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

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

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

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?'

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

Never stop doubting , never stop questioning, never ever assume you have all the answers. Having all the answers kills the question itself, renders it lifeless.....an d you too. Keep looking, keep seeking. Never, ever find it all. Because when you find it all, you deny that there is more. And there is never not more.

Embrace what you don't know

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

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

My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

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

I keep six honest serving men.

I was curious what would happen.

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.