74 Questions Quotes

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

'We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.'

If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, The eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, And lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question.

A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.

Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes.

What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.'

Why wont anyone ever answer my questions? Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers Well how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?

If you're going to shoot a mime, do you use a silencer?

As there was never any question there was never any answer. ~ Ch.1

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:- Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!

'What is the answer?' [ I was silent ] 'In that case, what is the question?'

Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.

My roommate said to me, 'I'm gonna go shave and use the shower, does anyone need to use the bathroom?' It's like some weird ass quiz where he reveals the answer first.

Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions: The first one is: Who started it? The second is: Are we going to make it? The third is: Where are we going to put it? The fourth is: Who's going to clean up? And the fifth: Is it serious?

Knowledge: 'Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.'

'I will ask them all, I will ask them all their dreams, I will hold my light above them and seek their faces. I will hear them whisper, invisible in their veins . . .' The eternal asker of answers becomes as the darkness, Or as a wind blown over a myriad forest, Or as the numberless voices of long-drawn rains.

What about his family? What about Miss PacMan?

How are moral assertions connected with the world of facts?

Ghostwritten's secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, 'Why do things happen?' so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams's secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, 'In what space does the mind operate?'

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic? A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. (Preface, A vii)

Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?

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

George Dillon: It's easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Los ordenadores son inutiles. Solo pueden darte respuestas.

I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.

You mean now?