Neal Shusterman Quotes

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

I'm very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I'm very introspective and self-critical.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

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

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in constant self-doubt. I think that creates a kind of search that you have to have, and it prevents you from doing a lot of stuff that you would normally do.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

I know that's a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to open your eyes, act and doubt. And then you have to repeat for a lifetime.

The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.