Oscar Wilde Quotes

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

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.

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Time discovers truth.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

I like to open people's eyes.

Light itself is a revelation.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.