Aaron Swartz Quotes

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

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

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

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

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The question is just as important as the answer.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

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

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

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.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.