Ben Marcus Quotes

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

Never stop doubting , never stop questioning, never ever assume you have all the answers. Having all the answers kills the question itself, renders it lifeless.....an d you too. Keep looking, keep seeking. Never, ever find it all. Because when you find it all, you deny that there is more. And there is never not more.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.