Top 100 Best Questions Quotes
#1. One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'
Michael Hyatt
#3. Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A
Kevin Kelly
#4. But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.
Philip A. Fisher
#5. You shouldn't make jokes about these things," she said. "Science doesn't have all the answers, you know."
"It's got all the best questions, though,
Ben Aaronovitch
#6. When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.
Angela Bassett
#7. The weakness was the first feature, the other what will do if I was this character? One of the best questions ever I have asked, it's one great from it comes another and another...
Deyth Banger
#8. The best questions to ask a killer or ask yourself after an event done by a killer is...
Why he did it...
How he was trapped in this...
Did somebody put him there...
....
Deyth Banger
#9. Are you available to travel? What kind of questions were these? Was the second one even allowed in a job interview? Still, she'd answered as best she could and finally read a question that made sense:
Melody Anne
#10. The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
Seth Godin
#11. I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.
Sam Harris
#12. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. Massachusetts became the first state to marry gay couples, though lawmakers say allowing gay couples to get married raises a lot of questions. You know, such as: does that best man invite both guys to the bachelor party?
Jay Leno
#14. My life in politics has taught me that the only thing more difficult than fighting against our enemies is taking questions from my friends." Amid knowing chuckles, he promised, "Nonetheless, I shall do my best.
Richard North Patterson
#15. It's a piece of piss. You know what I do? I just get up and read the paper. Then people ask questions, and I just bullshit. Actively bullshit, as opposed to passively. That's the best bit. Just bullshitting. Piece of utter piss.
Neil Gaiman
#16. The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions ... answering them in advance.
Arthur Helps
#18. The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
George A. Sheehan
#19. Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.
Tom Felton
#20. And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'
John Malkovich
#21. The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.
Stephen Karam
#22. In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.
Tyler Blackburn
#23. Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
Diana Whitney
#24. The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.
-Rick Ridgeway
Susan Magsamen
#25. If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
George A. Sheehan
#26. To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
John Sladek
#27. I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
Halle Berry
#28. What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise that we may need to change our views on these questions as new evidence comes in.
Hilary Kornblith
#29. Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
Bear Grylls
#30. But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#31. Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.
Dinty W. Moore
#32. Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.
Annie Besant
#33. The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
Edward Norton
#34. If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.
John C. Maxwell
#35. The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.
William Poundstone
#36. You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.
Nick Faldo
#37. Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.
Alexandre Dumas
#38. [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.
Philippe Halsman
#39. Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.
Agatha Christie
#40. The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.
Mardy Grothe
#41. Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#42. I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.
Terry McMillan
#43. It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
Sam Brownback
#44. The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
Aldous Huxley
#45. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.
Lou Holtz
#46. Most of the time, I listened and she cried. Never having gone through that kind of loss before, I didn't know what to say to her. Since I didn't have the answers to any of her questions, such as why this was happening to her, I thought it was best to just be there for her.
Sarah Price
#47. Silence - best answer for all the questions does certainly be,
Your smile - best reaction to all the life's situations positively.
[228] - 4 (Thoughts)
Munindra Misra
#48. One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want-and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?
Oprah Winfrey
#49. Do what's right! Do the best you can and treat others the way you want to be treated because they will ask three questions: (1) Can I trust you? (2) Are you committed? (3) Do you care about me as a person?
Lou Holtz
#50. The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.
Nicolas Cage
#51. Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.
Amit Ray
#52. Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more.
Charles Dickens
#53. [Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.
Jeffrey Rosen
#54. Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?" If so, he says, "You may be outscored but you will never lose.
Carol S. Dweck
#55. I am willing to amuse you, if I can, sir - quite willing; but I cannot introduce a topic, because how do I know what will interest you? Ask me questions, and I will do my best to answer them.
Charlotte Bronte
#56. Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.
Joshua Mohr
#57. I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'
Martha Plimpton
#58. Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.
John F. Kerry
#59. I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best.
Michael B. Jordan
#60. If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.
Mandy Hale
#61. The less one knows about meat, the more one is able to enjoy it. Meat tastes wonderful, of course, but as with the lad hawking hard-to-find wares at unbelievable prices, it's best not to ask too many questions.
Brian South
#62. Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.
Michael Ian Black
#63. I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.
George Pelecanos
#64. Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.
Michael Hyatt
#65. I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
Ayad Akhtar
#66. With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
Bruce Cameron
#67. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz
#68. It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.
Frederick Lenz
#69. In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
Fred Rogers
#70. As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader. I learned to ask myself two questions: First, what must the organization I command do and be? And second, how can I best command to achieve that?
Stanley McChrystal
#71. This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
David Kay
#72. When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
Tom Araya
#73. The two most important questions in the world are:
How can I be the best version of myself &
How can I help others be their best version
Steven Aitchison
#74. One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
Vinod Khosla
#75. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.
Lauren Mayberry
#76. The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.
Julian Barnes
#77. It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
Howard Staunton
#78. I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.
John Edgar Wideman
#79. Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.
Julie Walters
#80. The more partners I had, the more I realized Gregory and I were the best pair I'd ever come across. But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes.
Cecelia Ahern
#81. Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach,
Eleanor Duckworth
#82. I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.
Georges St-Pierre
#83. One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.
Dan Brown
#84. People love to talk
especially when the talking involves answering the questions of others
because it makes them feel wanted. [ ... ] I had long ago discovered that the best way to obtain answers about anything was to walk up to the closest person and ask.
Alan Bradley
#85. The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented ... They come from inventing new questions!
Seth Godin
#86. [I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.
Kate Messner
#87. The Need to Read
"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life's questions, big and small.
Will Schwalbe
#88. What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone
Louisa May Alcott
#89. She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.
Debasish Mridha
#90. The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
Alain De Botton
#91. could act like a CEO or I could really be a CEO, which means doing whatever I need to do (including asking obvious questions) to make the best decision for my company. No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you.
Sophia Amoruso
#92. The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#93. One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.
Robert Kiyosaki
#94. The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.
Jill Konrath
#95. Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.
Nicolas Cage
#96. Avoid foolish questions. - Titus 3:9 OUR days are few, and are far better spent in doing good, than in disputing over matters which are, at best, of minor importance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#97. Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.
James D. Watson
#98. When profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.
Dan O'Brien
#99. Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again - lots of them.
Hal B. Gregersen
#100. Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
Howard Gardner
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