Paulo Coelho Quotes

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

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

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

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

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

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

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

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.

It's not like I have all the answers.

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

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.