Bo Burnham Quotes

A Socrates in every classroom.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

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.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

I am completely Socratic.

Socrates was executed … not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Question everything!

My only weapon is the question.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.