John Templeton Quotes

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

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

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

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

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

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

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

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

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

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

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

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

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

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.