Top 100 Quotes About Questions
#1. So many bleeding, stupid questions. Do girls think like this all the time? No wonder they're so confusing.
Sabaa Tahir
#2. There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.
Chance The Rapper
#3. I picked out a question with care. You have to be careful with strangers; questions can reveal as much as answers -Eve
Michele Jaffe
#4. During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#5. Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable?
James Wolcott
#6. I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
Jose Saramago
#7. In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God ... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
Adolf Hitler
#8. Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation.
- Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#9. I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers ...
Alice Walker
#10. Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.
David Baldacci
#11. He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.
Jayce O'Neal
#12. In Korea, math moved fluidly. When the teacher asked questions, the kids answered as if math were a language that they knew by heart. As in Tom's class in Poland, calculators weren't allowed, so kids had learned mental tricks to manipulate numbers quickly.
Amanda Ripley
#13. The goal is to build the muscle memory for your child to instinctively ask themselves key questions before making a purchase.
Holly D. Reid
#14. God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.
Jamie Oliver
#15. Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.
Tim Conway
#16. A spell perhaps? The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.
Liz DeJesus
#17. There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.
Immanuel Kant
#18. What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.
Jon Turteltaub
#19. 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
#20. Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains ... who is the next Ronald Reagan?
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#21. I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way
Giovanna Fletcher
#22. The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.
Nicky Romero
#24. What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.
Kristen Stewart
#25. One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.
Linda Blair
#26. If you have enough unanswered questions, you have a certifiable mystery, and those are impossible to resist.
Lisa Lutz
#27. Our lives are shaped by the questions we ask. Good questions lead to good outcomes. Bad questions lead to bad outcomes.
Michael Hyatt
#28. The Lord gave you a mind so that you can make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment.
Marilynne Robinson
#29. When Jeb Bush came on the shows and couldn't answer questions about Iraq, and when he looked like he was unsteady, it absolutely solidified the concerns that they had had all along about his skills.
Amy Walter
#30. It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.
Marilynne Robinson
#31. I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?
Gloria Steinem
#32. My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
Brian Greene
#33. I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.
Gina Carano
#34. I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
David Antin
#35. That's the beauty of the famous scientific method. You observe your subject, ask questions, and then research before establishing a hypothesis.
Claudia Burgoa
#36. Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
Nicola Cabibbo
#37. In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.
Barbara Forrest
#39. I didn't ask any questions. I didn't think. The steroids did that for me.
A.D. Aliwat
#40. 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 more with questions?
Daniel H. Pink
#41. The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you?
I'm asking the questions tonight.
If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.
Karen Marie Moning
#42. The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#43. Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
Morley Safer
#44. We don't ask questions when they fall, Serah. You know that. We just say goodbye and walk away.
J.M. Darhower
#45. A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.
Tony Robbins
#47. The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.
Keith Rabois
#48. A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don't believe everything you think.
Vironika Tugaleva
#49. The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive.
Jack Balkin
#50. The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.
Jimmy Cornell
#51. Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?
Tite Kubo
#52. In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if's of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him.
Anne Rice
#53. A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)
Prem Prakash
#54. Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. God's reply to Job makes one simple point: while human beings may have questions about how the Lord rules His world, they have no justification for demanding answers from Him. He is the Creator, but we are the creatures.
Anonymous
#56. Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces - and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.
Lauren Oliver
#57. If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of person you are.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. 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
#59. Astrology can never give you the answers to life's deepest questions - especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands - tomorrow and forever.
Billy Graham
#60. I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.
Margaret Geller
#61. Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
B.F. Skinner
#62. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#63. The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
Albert Barnes
#65. Who hated as passionately as she loved, who asked questions that couldn't be answered, who
Nora Roberts
#66. If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.
John Cage
#67. You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.
Lowell Bergman
#68. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
Kate Forsyth
#69. This ghost of a mother had begun to ask him questions about who he was and who he truly loved. Was he capable of love?
Hanif Kureishi
#70. Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
John Maeda
#71. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
Jane Austen
#72. Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
- T. S. Eliot
Harlan Coben
#73. If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
Jonathan Sacks
#74. Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.
John C. Maxwell
#75. The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
Maggie Smith
#76. Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?
S.A. Tawks
#77. I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.
Lemony Snicket
#78. Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning.
Elena Ferrante
#79. The issue is not answering questions, but leaving discussions open. Not in the sense that probably one day you are going to have an answer or you are not going to have an answer. Just live your life, do what you have to do, what you are enthusiastic about doing.
Paulo Coelho
#80. Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.
Paul Bloom
#81. The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would ... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.
Alan Furst
#82. I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
Charles Saatchi
#83. Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
Sam Harris
#84. What makes a show good for me, personally, is a mystery that just doesn't quit. I want to know why. Why did this happen? Why is this phenomenon occurring? Why did that person do that? A series is really good to me that takes its time in answering those questions.
Mark Pellegrino
#85. What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,
George R R Martin
#86. I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
Karine Vanasse
#87. Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions
Michael Morpurgo
#88. In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.
John N. Bahcall
#89. When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
Henry Norris Russell
#90. Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become that child again: even now.
C.S. Lewis
#91. I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.
Giles Matthey
#92. Many people operate as though the definition of faith were, Don't ask questions, just believe. They quote Jesus himself, who taught his followers to have the faith of a child (Mark 10:15). But I once heard Francis Schaeffer respond by saying, "Don't you realize how many questions children ask?"
Nancy Pearcey
#93. Remember those old math questions you had in algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project I'm working on.
Andy Weir
#94. The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.
Helmut Thielicke
#95. Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions - what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them - even when faced with the reality that the answers weren't always pretty.
Angela Lynn
#96. It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.
Arlen Specter
#97. National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great. The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.
Rudolf Hess
#98. An absolute joy to read - it stimulates and engages. Westney is asking new questions not addressed elsewhere ... and you will be drawn in by the author's inviting, yet quietly compelling style.
Patricia Powell
#99. 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
#100. You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
Jerry Garcia
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