Roberto Unger Quotes

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 no sure answers, only better questions.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

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

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

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

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

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

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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.

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.

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

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

You always need to be curious and study.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.