Edward de Bono Quotes

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

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.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

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.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

I love to doubt as well as know.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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.

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Question everything!

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Skepticism is the lifeblood of scientific progress. By constantly asking whether there is a different answer, a better approach or an alternative view, scientists drive improvements and innovations that ultimately benefit everyone. It is not “antiscience” to be skeptical—it’s definitively pro-science.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.