Robin Ince Quotes

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I'm a puzzle doer.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

There are no sure answers, only better questions.