Questions Quotes - page 2

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. (Laura Welch Bush)
There are no right answers to wrong questions. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. View quote
Paul Ricœur
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. View quote
John Searle
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your-you know, I'm 67. View quote
William Rehnquist
George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones. View quote
John Osborne
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. View quote
Anthony Robbins
If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions. (Susanne Langer)
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. View quote
Albertus Magnus
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. View quote
Georg Cantor
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. View quote
C. S. Lewis
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? (Immanuel Kant)
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. View quote
Mary Astor
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. View quote
Franz Marc