Neal Shusterman Quotes

What are the questions you wish to ask?

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

If I knew the answer to that question, I would disclose it.

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Ask the next question.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is 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. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.