Top 96 Knowledge Questions Quotes
#1. Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god
who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see
Jodi Picoult
#2. I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. We care about knowledge because knowledge is crucial to a worthwhile, valuable life. The questions of epistemology may be abstract, but their importance to our lives is vital.
Duncan Pritchard
#4. Humans have precious few instincts, but that's because we don't listen to them. We let logic and knowledge get in the way. My dad always said that when instincts are at war with something society has taught you, listen to your instincts first and ask questions later.
Elizabeth Norris
#5. Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.
Carl Sagan
#6. You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.
Mooji
#7. No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is.
Hilary Kornblith
#8. If you want to go to a place you have never been before, you have to ask questions you have never asked before. Don't feel shy to ask questions about things you don't know!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant
#10. WHY I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?
Napoleon Hill
#11. This book is about the questions you must ask and answer to succeed in the business of doing new things: what follows is not a manual or a record of knowledge but an exercise in thinking. Because that is what a startup has to do: question received ideas and rethink business from scratch.
Peter Thiel
#12. There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#13. Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#14. In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
John Tuley
#15. It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.
Dani Shapiro
#16. The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.
Raymond Chandler
#17. Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.
Ted Chiang
#18. The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
Northrop Frye
#19. The theologian can ask far profounder questions because he knows more about God; by that same knowledge he knows that there are depths that he will never know. But to see why one cannot know more is itself a real seeing; there is a way of seeing the darkness which is a kind of light.
Frank Sheed
#20. Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
Roberto Bolano
#21. The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.
John N. Bahcall
#22. It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?
Pamela Dean
#23. You have all the hallmarks of a seeker ... You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't.
M.J. Rose
#24. It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.
Rebecca Stott
#25. Those with no knowledge
Has no thought
The more we see the more we're taught
There is an answer to every Question*
But some Questions are never asked
That's the worlds problems of today
Too many Questions are passed*
Adam Rhee
#26. If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency, this fact about our evolutionary origin is of no use at all in addressing questions about reliability.
Hilary Kornblith
#27. Nothing earns better interest than judicious questions, and the man who invests in more knowledge of the business than he has to have in order to hold his job has capital with which to buy a mortgage on a better one.
George Horace Lorimer
#28. The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#30. Academic sceptics argued for the conclusion that knowledge was impossible; Pyrrhonian sceptics aimed to reach no conclusions at all, suspending judgement on all questions, even the question of the possibility of knowledge.
Jennifer Nagel
#32. Why would anyone entertain Satan's questions about God's goodness when everything is good? But a few bumps in the road, and our knowledge of God seems fragile, and that's what Satan is counting on.
Edward T. Welch
#33. I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.
Rahki
#34. It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.
Anodea Judith
#35. The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.
Murad S. Shah
#36. Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
Julio Olalla
#38. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
Georges St-Pierre
#39. Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown.
S. Vagus
#40. More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.
Baris Gencel
#41. Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska
#42. Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.
Joey Comeau
#43. Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.
Bremer Acosta
#44. I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
Christopher Moore
#45. Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
RZA
#46. I am a free-willed, free-thinking, non-conforming subversive using the powers of intellect and common sense to not only question my environment but search for answers to those questions in order to share that knowledge with those around me for a better tomorrow.
R. Wolf Baldassarro
#47. If you want the answer - ask the question.
Lorii Myers
#48. Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard sex knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
#49. I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.
Charlie Munger
#50. We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.
Joan D. Chittister
#51. All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
Nils-Axel Morner
#52. Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.
Robin Wasserman
#53. Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.
Jeff Atwood
#54. Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute - not knowledge! To
R. Scott Bakker
#55. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
#56. We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.
Tejomayananda
#57. Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.
Michael E. Szymanczyk
#58. As S. S. McClure well understood, the "vitality of democracy" depends on "popular knowledge of complex questions." At
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#59. To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
Anatol Rapoport
#60. Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.
Laurie Gray
#61. Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let's just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.
Eraldo Banovac
#62. There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.
Richard P. Feynman
#63. Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
Ted Dekker
#64. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi Picoult
#65. We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish ... The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
Chogyam Trungpa
#66. 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
#67. So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?
Peter Wohlleben
#68. In my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.
George Eliot
#69. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#70. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.
Anna Agoncillo
#71. As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
Richard Attias
#72. Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.
S.D. Lawendowski
#73. The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.
Peter Block
#74. The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
Don DeLillo
#75. An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.
Stephen Batchelor
#76. This was interesting knowledge: you could only ask questions in certain rooms. There were rooms for sitting and thinking and rooms for inquisition.
Matt Haig
#77. The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger
#78. Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.
Hannah Arendt
#80. Our reason has this peculiar fate that, with reference to one class of its knowledge, it is always troubled with questions which cannot be ignored, because they spring from the very nature of reason, and which cannot be answered, because they transcend the powers of human reason.
Immanuel Kant
#81. A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience.
Robert Harris
#82. All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
Franz Kafka
#83. To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#84. If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Susanne Langer
#85. To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
Samuel Wilson
#86. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
Daniel C. Dennett
#87. Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo
#88. A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
Adam D'Angelo
#89. The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
Edward Levi
#90. I only know everything if you ask the right questions.
Doc Coleman
#91. I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.
Rebecca Goldstein
#92. Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
Todd William
#93. I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
Hermann Hesse
#94. We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
Tariq Ramadan
#95. So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ.
Ravi Zacharias
#96. Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Criss Jami
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