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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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

I love to doubt as well as know.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. … the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

My only weapon is the question.

I don't like the intellectual label.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.