Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

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

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

You always need to be curious and study.

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.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

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.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

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

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

A good education should leave much to be desired.