Top 42 Wise Questions Quotes
#1. If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of person you are.
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
C. West Churchman
#5. The third quality that is needed for a scientist to become a public icon is wisdom. Besides being a famous joker and a famous genius, Feynman was also a wise human being whose answers to serious questions made sense.
Freeman Dyson
#6. There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
George Polya
#7. The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.
University Of Navarra
#8. Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.
Yves Montand
#9. 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
#10. Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.
William Tyndale
#11. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
Robert Browning
#14. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
#16. 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott
#17. The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why ... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays.
Nikki Rowe
#19. A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.
Paulo Coelho
#20. One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
Vladimir Lenin
#21. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silent; upon mysteries which belong to God alone; upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation; and upon mere modes of observing human ceremonials, are all foolish, and wise men avoid them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#23. My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment, with an excellent toilet, and a well-furnished dogma.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#27. Examinations consist of the foolish asking questions the wise cannot answer
Oscar Wilde
#28. Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.
J. Bartell
#29. In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
#30. I sat and reflected on the situation I had faced
I needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask ...
But I need to know,
How was this to be apart of my destiny?
Nikki Rowe
#31. A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key.
J. Gabriel Gates
#32. Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
Walter Bagehot
#34. It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.
Cassius Jackson Keyser
#35. What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers - there are only questions.
Norman Mailer
#36. There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
George Jones
#38. It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself ... My ideas are my harlots.
Denis Diderot
#40. Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
Desiderius Erasmus
#41. The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
