Questions And Answers Quotes

• Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  World

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• We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Atheism, Knows, Answers

  1928 'The Hamlet of A. MacLeish'.

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

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Creativity, Problem Solving, Finding Your Path

  "Questions That Work: How to Ask Questions That Will Help You Succeed in Any Business Situation". Book by Andrew Finlayson, p. 239, 2001.

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• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

  Voltaire

  Learning, Ignorance, Stupid People

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  Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  Euripides

  Life, Answering Questions, Questions Asked

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• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Knowing, Answers

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Questioning

  "An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick". Book by Patricia Telesco, November 1, 2001.

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Science, Technology, Giving

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• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

  Richard Bach

  Light, Jewels, Color

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• Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Limits, Serious

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Want, Answering Questions, Faces

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Two, Answering Questions

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186

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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Witty, Lying

  Oliver Goldsmith (1898). “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...”

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

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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

  James Thurber

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

  Bono

  Thoughtful, Perspective, Asking The Right Questions

  Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  Tony Robbins

  Success, Tattoo, Business

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2014

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

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Want, Reasonable

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Depression, Patience, Mindfulness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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