Peter Drucker Quotes

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

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

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.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

'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'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

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

I love to doubt as well as know.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.