Isaac Asimov Quotes

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

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

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.