QUESTION QUOTES III

quotations about questions

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

NEIL POSTMAN & CHARLES WEINGARTNER

Teaching as a Subversive Activity


I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

YOGI BERRA

attributed, The Yogi Book

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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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A civil question deserves a civil answer.

MARTIN H. MANSER

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs


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


Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

MILAN KUNDERA

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

INDIRA GANDHI

attributed, Misbehave: Speak Truth to Power


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

R. D. LAING

The Politics of Family and Other Essays

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Why are things beautiful? I don't know. That's a good question. Isn't it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher, or a speaker, and he or she says, That's a good question? Don't you feel good when that happens?

NICHOLSON BAKER

A Box of Matches

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The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.

SAM HO

Operations and Quality Management


Fools may ask questions, but it takes wise men to answer them.

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE

Prenticeana


There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside. These are the four ways of answering questions.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Sutta Pitaka

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

ARCHIMEDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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Questions are dangerous, for they have answers.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

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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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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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Ask not a foolish question in public.

STILPO

attributed, Day's Collacon


Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?

MOLLY HARPER

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs


To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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