47 Quotes on Questions

• Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

  Author: Francis Bacon

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  Author: Samantha Bee

• Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

  Author: Isaiah Berlin

• Every clarification breeds new questions.

  Author: Arthur Bloch

• I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

  Author: Lizzie Borden

• There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

  Author: Anatoli Boukreev

• The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

  Author: Alan Dershowitz

• The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

  Author: Charles Eames

• I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

  Author: Bret Ellis

• My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

  Author: Gina Gershon

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  Author: Ursula Guin

• I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

  Author: Marvin Harris

• But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

  Author: Herman Hesse

• I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

  Author: Lou Holtz

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  Author: Zora Hurston

• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  Author: Peter Jennings

• My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

  Author: Brian Lamb

• I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

  Author: Bruce Nauman

• It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

  Author: John Osborne

• Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

  Author: Tom Palmer

• Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

  Author: Talcott Parsons

• The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

  Author: John Poindexter

• 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.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

  Author: Godfrey Reggio

• I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

  Author: Anne Rice

• I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

  Author: Anne Rice

• I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• Great questions make great reporting.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

  Author: John Searle

• Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

  Author: Ernst Thalmann

• It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

  Author: Brandon Thomas

• Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• I like the big questions.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

  Author: Thorstein Veblen

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  Author: Carl Vechten

• It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

  Author: George Woodcock

• And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

  Author: A. Yehoshua