Bryant H. McGill Quotes

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

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

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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

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.'

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.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.