The Power Of Asking Questions Quotes

#1. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

Bertrand Russell

#2. After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together.

Thomas McGuane

#3. A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.

Lizzie Brochere

#5. It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.

Margaret Atwood

#6. You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.

Richard Rorty

#7. I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

Woody Allen

#8. And he, he himself ... the Grinch ... carved the roast-beast!

Dr. Seuss

#9. questions hold the power to cause us to think, create answers we believe in, and motivate us to act on our ideas. Asking moves us beyond passive acceptance of what others say, or staying stuck in present circumstances, to aggressively applying our creative ability to the problem.

Tony Stoltzfus

#10. God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

Paul Tillich

#11. Asking questions gives you significant power.

Greg Anderson

#12. 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

#13. It is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.

Edward Said

#14. 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

#15. Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

Dennis Kimbro

#16. I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.

Jorge Ramos