QUESTION QUOTES III

quotations about questions

Never surrender a good question for a mere answer.

JANE HIRSHFIELD

"Living by Questions", Oprah

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A man becomes learned by asking questions.

AHMED VESIK

attributed, Day's Collacon


Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without ever having asked a clear question.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Fall

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Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

"The Garden of Paradise"

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Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

KARL JASPERS

Way to Wisdom


Where the question is a jest, the fittest answer is a scoff.

ARCHIMEDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

ANTHONY ROBBINS

attributed, 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead

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To a man full of questions make no answer at all.

PLATO

attributed, Day's Collacon

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

attributed, Reader's Digest, Volume 37, 1940

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Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

ISAAC ASIMOV

Prelude to Foundation

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An able man is not ashamed to put questions both to the humble and the wise.

TSHANG

attributed, Day's Collacon


No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

R. D. LAING

The Politics of Family and Other Essays

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Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer -- except faith.

CHARLES SHEFFIELD

Brother to Dragons


For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them.

LEO TOLSTOY

A Confession

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A civil question deserves a civil answer.

MARTIN H. MANSER

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs


There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

ANNE BISHOP

Daughter of the Blood


Whatever you eye falls on -- for it will fall on what you love -- will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

MARY ROSE O'REILLEY

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of A Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd


Men certainly have a way of keeping women in suspense, and an unwillingness to answer questions even when we ask them.

ELIZA LESLIE

The Escorted Lady


No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Our Theatres in the Nineties

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