Nancy Willard Quotes

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

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

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

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

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

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

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

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.