Top 100 Quotes About Asking Questions
#1. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.
John Boyne
#2. If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Edward Hodnett
#3. Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.
Arnold Wesker
#4. I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions.
Max Tegmark
#5. People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
John Lennon
#6. You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
Barbara Kingsolver
#7. I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.
Jill Douglas
#8. What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,
George R R Martin
#9. What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
Tony Robbins
#10. The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
Sylvia Earle
#11. 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.
Nicholas Sparks
#12. PEOPLE WILL STOP ASKING QUESTIONS IF YOU ANSWER BACK IN INTERPRETIVE DANCE. - T-SHIRT
Darynda Jones
#13. We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#14. When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.
Kobe Bryant
#15. Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.
Kim Anderson
#16. I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.
Rick Riordan
#17. I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.
Rose McIver
#18. Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.
Virginia Axline
#19. Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
Clayton Christensen
#20. While many conclusions are drawn ... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers ... an ongoing process of discovery.
John Paul Caponigro
#21. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
Allen Ginsberg
#22. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.
Tim Brown
#23. Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.
Dale Carnegie
#24. I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
Jim Lehrer
#25. But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;
Steven D. Levitt
#26. Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong."
- Amelia & Leo
Lisa Kleypas
#27. He knew he had a lot to learn - that was why he was asking questions.
James Dashner
#28. We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!
P.L. Travers
#29. Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley, who found an answer as she found a key, by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies.
George Eliot
#30. Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
Junot Diaz
#31. 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
#32. Freedom is an illusion. Try walking along the road with long hair and it won't be long before a sheriff pulls up asking questions.
Shaman Elizabeth Herrera
#34. It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.
Martha Ostenso
#35. That might be because you drew your own conclusions before asking questions.
Nicole Williams
#36. Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.
Lesslie Newbigin
#37. If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.
Tony Robbins
#38. The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
Bing Gordon
#40. Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown.
S. Vagus
#41. Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.
Stephanie Mbida
#42. Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!
Archibald Marwizi
#44. Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.
Rob Liano
#45. I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.
Thomas Sadoski
#46. This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.
Rumi
#47. I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Diane Sawyer
#48. I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
Carl Reiner
#49. Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.
Evan Esar
#50. The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.
Tom Hodgkinson
#51. Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?
Michael Scott
#52. Selling is Serving:
Serving people
Asking questions
Listening actively
Engaging the client
Supporting their decision
Farshad Asl
#53. Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.
Kavita Ramdas
#54. The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.
Doug Dawson
#55. Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority.
Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential.
Tony Curl
#56. A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.
Stieg Larsson
#57. I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
Anne Rice
#58. I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
Lisa Loeb
#59. At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.
Hemant Mehta
#60. You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.
Hillary Jordan
#61. I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
Jacqueline Woodson
#62. It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists ... and I never stopped asking questions.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
#63. At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.
Joe Sutter
#64. They're coming at it through the name. The big guy is all over town, asking questions." He got a long plastic crackle in exchange, calm, mellifluous, and reassuring. He said, "OK, sure," but he didn't sound sure, and then he hung up the phone.
Lee Child
#65. We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
James Stephens
#66. She knew what he was thinking: if she was asking questions like these, she was trying to understand. Trying to forgive him. He was right.
Chris Pavone
#67. I'm sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.
Ann Aguirre
#68. If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like?
Shea Hembrey
#69. Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.
Malik Yoba
#70. The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm
#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. It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
Emily Procter
#73. I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.
Terry Gross
#74. Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.
Jack White
#75. Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.
Margaret Mead
#76. The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination ... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.
Daniel Dennett
#77. I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
Bill James
#78. If he didn't want to talk about it, I wouldn't mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.
Kristine Cuevas
#79. The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions
Naomi Oreskes
#80. If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission
Sunday Adelaja
#81. If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.
Haruki Murakami
#82. Asking questions is not a matter of weakness or of being uninformed. In fact, people who ask a lot of questions tend to achieve more and learn more than those who do not.
John Patrick Hickey
#83. This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.
Caroline Pratt
#84. Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
Anthony Kennedy
#85. Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.
Luci Swindoll
#86. 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
#87. No one seemed to know how my broken arm got infected. Pretty quickly I stopped asking questions about it. I was worried I would find out that there were other basic medical facts that nurses didn't know; like where skin comes from, or how surgery works.
Jesse Andrews
#88. Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?
Suzy Welch
#89. Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.
Jen Kirkman
#90. Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?'
'Never. They're mother's milk to me.
Tamora Pierce
#91. When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
#92. Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Thom Mayne
#93. I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#94. The cable is evidence of a widespread US policy during the occupation of shooting first and asking questions later, as well as detaining anyone and everyone "suspected" of having any links to attacks on US forces.
Dahr Jamail
#95. I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
Chris Lytle
#96. Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.
Michael Hyatt
#97. In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
Ben Horowitz
#98. I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.
Lesley Hazleton
#99. Why did everyone have to ruin the quiet by asking questions? The truth was a disastrous thing.
Victoria Schwab
#100. John Seely Brown, the former director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, once said, The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.
Eric Schmidt
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