Questions Quotes

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

C.S. Lewis

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Mahatma Gandhi

Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.

Thea Alexander

You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.

Barbara de Angelis

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Stewart Emery

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Steve Maraboli

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

Albert Einstein

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Christopher Hitchens

... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?

Jim Bower

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Decouvertes

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude LeviStrauss

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Robert Half

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

John Fowles

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Charles Steinmetz

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer, Principles of B

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Madeleine L'Engle