Elie Wiesel Quotes

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Questions outlive the answers.

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

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

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

I've always had questions about how things work and why it was that way. From all kinds of perspectives, from the physical to the spiritual.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I love to doubt as well as know.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

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