Quotes

‘There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.’

— John Locke

‘You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.’

— Mahfouz Naguib

‘To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.’

— Albert Einstein

‘Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.’

— Bernard Mannes Baruch

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this next one-

‘Man’s “progress” is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.’

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry