The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.
The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
Questioning is the piety of thought.
Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
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.
Even a genius has his questions.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?
My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.
I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.
