Mary Oliver Quotes

It's not like I have all the answers.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

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.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

Do not feel certain of anything.

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

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Never stop doubting , never stop questioning, never ever assume you have all the answers. Having all the answers kills the question itself, renders it lifeless.....an d you too. Keep looking, keep seeking. Never, ever find it all. Because when you find it all, you deny that there is more. And there is never not more.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

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

I don't have answers. I have questions.

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