quotations about questions
Ask not a foolish question in public.
STILPO
attributed, Day's Collacon
No one has the answer: we are answer and question.
R. D. LAING
The Politics of Family and Other Essays
Questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
Where the question is a jest, the fittest answer is a scoff.
ARCHIMEDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
AHMED VESIK
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
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda
The ignorant start questions which have been already answered thousands of years ago by the wise.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Never surrender a good question for a mere answer.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Living by Questions", Oprah
An able man is not ashamed to put questions both to the humble and the wise.
TSHANG
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
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
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without ever having asked a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Fall
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching with questions?
DANIEL H. PINK
attributed, The Future of Strategy
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
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
ANNE RICE
The Vampire Lestat
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
To a man full of questions make no answer at all.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI
attributed, Misbehave: Speak Truth to Power
A civil question deserves a civil answer.
MARTIN H. MANSER
The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs