Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

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

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

I love to doubt as well as know.

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.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

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

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

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

My only weapon is the question.

I was one of those annoying kids that was always like, 'But why?'

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.