Karyn Kusama Quotes

Think your own thoughts.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

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

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

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?'

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

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

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

My only weapon is the question.

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.