Neal Shusterman Quotes

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

Ignorance never settles a question.

There is no shame in admitting that the ultimate principle of all the wonders of the universe is unknown to us.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

The realm of 'The 100,' it's pretty complicated. I don't know. My mom never knows what's going on.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.