Bryan Magee Quotes

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

Science is about questioning things.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.