Simon Sinek Quotes

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Staying curious keeps me inspired.

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He was a genius but he had a certain humility. In his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in Milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

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

I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.