Questions Quotes
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverbs
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? -Larry Flynt
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Anthony Robbins
The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool. - Frank A Garbutt
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. - Unknown
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are. - Oscar Wilde
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. - Joan Borysenko
Man will not live without answers to his questions. - Hans J. Morgenthau
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Dr. Ralph Gerard
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask? -Jim Rohn
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk. - Ayn Rand
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Bishop Creighton
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. - Thomas Berger
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions -Woody Allen
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz
Every clarification breeds new questions. - Arthur Bloch
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. - Edward Hodnett
When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get. - Unknown
Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. - Anthony Robbins
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. - Anthony Jay
Every clarification breeds new questions. - Arthur Bloch
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Ghandi
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? -Catherine Pulsifer
He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers. - African Proverb
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. - Lloyd Alexander
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. - John Lubbock, Sr
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. - Alice Wellington Rollins
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. - James Baldwin
We question everything that we put in our garbage. With landfill sites overflowing, and with our limited budget, we try and make use and find uses for everything possible. - Byron & Catherine Pulsifer
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights. - Brian Tracy
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. - Sam Keen
Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. - Voltaire
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. - Jim Rohn
Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions -Unknown
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. - John A. Simone, Sr.
There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence -Unknown
The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way -African Proverb
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Unknown
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions -Rainer Maria Rilke
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence -Unknown
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . - James Allen
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog -Franz Kafka
There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven... - Jack Johnson
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms -George Eliot
If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase -Brian Koslow
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are -Oscar Wilde
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.-
Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Syrus
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon
A timid question will always receive a confident answer. - Lord Darling
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. - Anthony Jay
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. - Steve Miller
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Good questions outrank easy answers. - Paul A Samuelson
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own. - Leo Stein
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles Steinmetz
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. - Unknown
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. - Joseph Joubert
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question. - Unknown
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. - Unknown
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer. - Unknown
The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves. - Unknown
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. - Samuel Johnson
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for? -Abraham Heschel
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - E. W.Dijkstra
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. - Francis Bacon
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ìwhat is the most valuable use of my time right now? -Brian Tracy
What does it mean to succeed? It is a question that haunts many. Many people, don't set any goals for themselves and succeed at very little. - Catherine Pulsifer
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it? -Charles Connolly
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. - C.S. Lewis
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it? -Charles Connolly
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. - Joey Adams
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. - Leo Tolstoy
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. - William Shakespeare
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. - S. Tobin Webster
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions. - Cynthia Ozick
Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, being you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. - Richard David Bach
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. - George Santayana
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. - John Abbott
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one. - Ambrose Bierce
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin