Andre Gide Quotes

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

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