Quotation Explorer - 'Questions'

You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer. - Steve Goodier
There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people’s beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms. - Keith Harmon
The world's questions cannot be simply solved with just one equation. - Gabriella Jording
So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries...when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them. - Dana Gore
Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma,tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes. - Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. - Anton Chekhov
Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change? - Erma Bombeck
How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. - C.S. Lewis
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. - Bill Hicks
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner. - Christof Koch
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. - Bob Newhart
I welcome questions. I hate assumptions. - Red Haircrow
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. - Theodore Roosevelt
And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic! - Terry Pratchett
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers. - Caitlin Keiper
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. - Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen
I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape. - Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. - John Le Carre
I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers. - Gabriel Bá
mr youse needn't be so spryconcernin questions artyeach has his tastes but as for ii likes a certain partygimme the he-man's solid blissfor youse ideas i'll match yousea pretty girl who naked isis worth a million statues - E.E. Cummings
The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief. - Sandra Chami Kassis
I don't trust people without books or questions. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose. - Shannon L. Alder
Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence. - Deyth Banger
The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free. - Gloria Steinem
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions? - Norman Maclean
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
True friendship never questions what it costs you. - Stephen Richards
Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers. - Amit Ray
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience. - Robert Harris
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. - Noam Chomsky
Even if you are a preacher or a pastor, you will never be able to avoid questions related to money. - Sunday Adelaja
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. - C.S. Lewis
Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer. - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking. - RJ Clawson
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? - George Orwell
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss
There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action. - J.R. Rim
He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving. - Jayce O'Neal
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel - Joan Didion
People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. - Bill Cosby
Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able to find it if we forget about questions and submit to the Self, radiating its light in the Present! - Frank Wanderer
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician. - Eugène Ionesco
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use. - Giuseppe Peano
We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day. - Gary Hopkins
Atheists/agnostics scored an average of 6.7 out of 12 on questions specifically regarding the Bible and Christianity. This is a higher score than (Protestant) Christians (6.2) and Catholics (5.4). - Pew Report
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
If you ask too many questions, you will find no answers, only more questions. - Monica Fairview
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different. - Albert Einstein
Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion. - David G. McAfee
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes - Sidney Howard
Many people in this world want you to follow them blindly, no questions asked , they wanna control your fate, your heart, soul & thoughts, I tell you...Follow your heart , listen to what it has to say . - sami abouzid
A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think. - Vironika Tugaleva
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? - Scott Adams
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. - Paul Haggis
Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for? - Sanhita Baruah
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. - Joseph Heller
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. - Clay Christensen
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. - Carl Jung
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew. - Jack Kerouac
There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? - Jeff Buckley
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. - Joseph Joubert
In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life. - Marty Rubin
Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. We've all worked with that person. That person is a drag. - Tina Fey
The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask - Rich Ridgeway
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. - Laura Bush
The answers you get depend on the questions you ask. - Thomas S. Kuhn
Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be. - Kaitlin Hollon
I sometimes ask these questions to myself: Are you chasing a dream just to prove that you can catch it? Will it really bring you happiness and fulfillment? Is it really your dream or just an illusion that you want to play on people's eyes? Isn't it time to forget it and embrace your real calling? - Jorge P. Guerrero
The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers. - J.M. Porup
I could watch him do this until morning never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me. - Jennifer Elisabeth
To be honest, i know noting about religion, since the world was created thousand of years ago, am just 30 years of age, and have stopped asking questions about how things came to being, but the truth about what i know is that the truth does not exit because i know noting - lanre efizie
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens
It's not that we get all the answers in life. Its just that the questions disappear and there we flow with life - quenched yet thirsty; full yet empty. - Rashmit Kalra
Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I’ve lived, not just with my questions. - Krista Tippett
I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. - Titus Livius
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. - Thorstein Veblen
I had a million questions to ask life, and they were all answered by one word: love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. - Thomas Jefferson
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. - Emily Saliers
Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers. - Molly Friedenfeld
Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions. - Matshona Dhliwayo
In order for grace to truly be grace, it has to extend to absolutely everyone, no matter what, no questions, no exceptions. Otherwise we think that somehow, by living a moral life...we've deserved it - Jay Bakker
I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.
It is neither necessary or possible to educate someone who never questions anything. - Joseph Heller
People want to know how I know so much. But trueth is .Inlife I have asked more questions than the answers I gave. Its good to ask when you dont know something. Than to assume you know to find you dont know anything. - De philosopher DJ Kyos
Questions open the mind; answers shut it down. - Debasish Mridha
I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. - Susane Colasanti
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. - Joey Adams
I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know,How was this to be apart of my destiny? - Nikki Rowe
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. - Tom Clancy
And my heart is breakingMy heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tearsI keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered - Paula Heller Garland
What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect. - Raheel Farooq
When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What? - Shannon L. Alder
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. - Og Mandino
The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do with first and last things questions such as How did everything begin? What are we all here for? What is the point of living? - Sir Peter Medawar
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov
Good questions outrank easy answers.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. - Malcolm X
Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion. - Leo Tolstoy
Never ask questions you don't want the answer to. - Pantea Konn
When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself. - Frank Wanderer
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries. - A.D. Posey
Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"? - Sanhita Baruah
The only way to know the answer is by asking questions. Religion tries to suppress the questions asking (curiosity) because it can threaten its own existence. The truth is out there, go ask for it! - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. - George Bernard Shaw
I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want. - Alice Walker
The weakness was the first feature, the other what will do if I was this character? One of the best questions ever I have asked, it's one great from it comes another and another... - Deyth Banger
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. - Anthony Jay
There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question. - Antonia Michaelis
Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. - Omaha Proverb
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. - Harold Ramis
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. - Sarah Brightman
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. - Confucius
Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand. - Rob Liano
They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved. - Kat O'Keeffe
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce
Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions. - Deyth Banger
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. - Carl Sagan
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. - C.S. Lewis
Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that. - Michael Specter
People with a scientific mindset are analytical, open-minded, flexible and have the capacity to answer questions. They are basically focused on what they do not know, and only exceptionally on what they do know. - Eraldo Banovac
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you’ll never have all of them. And that’s okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward. - Michael Holbrook
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? - C.S. Lewis
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true. - Maya Angelou
Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories. - Naomi Kinsman
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. - Claude Lévi-Strauss
That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales... - Tony Kushner
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer. - Barack Obama
Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. - Bill Nye
If you are happy, don’t analyse your happiness, don’t ask questions and don’t even think about it; just live it to the fullest! - Mehmet Murat ildan
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. - Anthony Liccione
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy. - Theodore Roosevelt
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp
If we knew all the answers, we won’t ask questions. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Illusion is so fragile; it rarely survive questions. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response? - Jay Woodman
Open questions like love, life, death, struggle and sex are our experiences, our opinions are not answers but they still remain mysterious unanswered questions. Let it be Open. - Santosh Kalwar
Abt Draws from a trove of personal experience to create a vivid account of the people and place. Along the way, Abt addresses big questions such as economic reform and practical ones such as how to use e–commerce to achieve brand recognition in North Korea. - Jeff Baron
Truth fears no questions. - Anonymous
An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government. - Amit Kalantri
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. - Joan Rivers
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off. - Jeffrey Pfeffer
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions. - Joey Comeau
I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great. - James C. Collins
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin
The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know. - Murad S. Shah
The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, Who am I? and Who are you? - Mac MacKenzie
CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. Debra Winger - Greg Cootsona
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. - George S. Patton
Dare to ask questions and seek answers to the puzzles of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.
Questions can either bond you or liberate!!! Its all depends on what you ask. - Harrish Sairaman
Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. - Robert McKee
Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle. - Emily Thorne
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. - Voltaire
Two questions I'm pondering:1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?2. If money didn't exist, would you still keep your job?If the answer is "YES" to both, you're on track. If the answer is "NO" to either, what needs to change? - Richie Norton
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. - Shannon L. Alder
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. - Carl Sagan
The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible. - Sunday Adelaja
All answers to life’s key questions are found within. - A.D. Posey
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. - Rainer Maria Rilke
I only know everything if you ask the right questions. - Doc Coleman
Genius is not the one who gives answers, it's the one who asks the questions. - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R
Questions that will free you might have answers that will imprison you again. - Nema Al-Araby
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. - Alison Gopnik
We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer. - Brian Wicker
I have no interest in anything so frivolous as the bona fide religion or mankind's pathetic debate over whose version of the church is correct. Circular arguments over the semantics of faith hold no interest for me. Those are questions answered only through death! - m.ralte
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. - Lou Holtz
People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside. - Jane Goodall
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. - Scott Westerfeld
Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let’s just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams. - Eraldo Banovac
You are asking me questions I cannot answer. All I ask is that you do not fear Avanti’s judgement and that you live your life from this point, as if it were the only life you had. Make the most of each day you live, make every moment count.’~Elden RothDeathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage - Martyn Stanley
Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions. - Davis Bunn
A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.* - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value. - Shannon L. Alder
I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. - Stephen Hawking
One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. - Ashlee Vance
We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts. - Ufuoma Apoki
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."[Six Questions for , Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011] - Slavoj Žižek
Three most important questions for a happy life:How can I help? How can I love? How can I belong? - Debasish Mridha
It's not the questions that get us in trouble. It's the answers.
If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights) - Jill D. Block
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. - Margaret Atwood
The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions. - Lesley Sears
I have two questions for you: one, what kind of person do you want to be? Two, what kind of music would I find on your playlist? If any answer in the second question is in conflict with your answer to the first question, you may want to make a few changes. - Justin Young
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out. - Ali Vincent
Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it. - Jack White
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson
My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each day and why we retire at night, we fail to know the real reasons why we live. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer. - Meryl S. Kavanagh
Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered. - Mansi Soni
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes". - Douglas Adams
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. - Albert Einstein
If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. - Jill D. Block
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. - Nancy Willard
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. - Paulo Coelho
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. - Immanuel Kant
With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers. - Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen
So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae) - Terence
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.
I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story I will. - Amy Schumer
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. - Ted Chiang
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. - Primo Levi
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber
She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions. - Debasish Mridha
Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide - Gary Hopkins
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil? - David Hume
What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I can understand what person are you by asking you three questions "What do you read?", "What type of music do you listen?" and "What you watch!" - So next time be aware of this! - Deyth Banger
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood - Otto von Bismarck
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. - Alexander Hamilton
The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow. - David McGee
Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one. - Kim Wright
And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn. - Norton Juster
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. - Susan Sontag
What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? - G.F. Smith
I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok.. - Donal O'Callaghan
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman
It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance. - Louisa Hall
My continuing passion is to explore strange industries, to acquire new knowledge and ask many questions, to boldly learn something I did not know before. - Boripat Lebel
In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward. - Kaci Cronkhite
Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays. - Nikki Rowe
At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become. - Leo Babauta
There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. - Margaret Mead
There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go. - David Levithan
If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek? - Lailah Gifty Akita
When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: What went wrong? - Erik Pevernagie
I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now. - Toni Sorenson
Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands. - Dan James
Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself. - Owen Gingerich
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time. - Alex Filippenko
Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers. - James Thurber
If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers. - Ogwo David Emenike
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. - Franz Marc
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask. - George Jones
You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians) - Thucydides
Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship. - Miya Yamanouchi
The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask - James Cameron
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. - Leo Tolstoy
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