Real Questions Quotes

• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Real, Needs, Answers

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “The Search for WondLa”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Real, Monsters

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Real, Mistake

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin

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• What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?

  Patricia Highsmith

  Real, Answers, Ends

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.204, She Winked Press

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• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Science, Acceptance

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Book, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?

  Harry Browne

  Letting Go, Real, Government

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• I'm not a spy, which is the real question

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Memorable, Spy

  "Defending His Actions, Snowden Says He’s a Patriot". Article by Elena Schneider and Steve Kenny, www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2014.

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• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  Bill W.

  Wisdom, Real, Lying

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• To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Real, Over You, Be Who You Are

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• How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Real, Meaning Of Life, Tasks

  FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Jun 17, 2015

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• What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

  Gayle Forman

  Real

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.145, Penguin

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• There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Peace, Real, Fighting

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• The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Doe, Problem

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• AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

  Pascal Mercier

  Real, Differences, Soul

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• So, what are you doing tonight?" Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course." You want company?" Carrie's looking wistful. Do you have homework to do?" Of course. WEther I do it or not is the real question.

  Lisa McMann

  Real, Laughing, Tonight

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• [Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Answers, Praying

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• Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

  William Stafford

  Real, Caring, People

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• What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

  John Templeton

  Real, Important, Experience

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• The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Real

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• The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Real, Concern

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• The real question is who will innovate.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, Innovation, Big Companies

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• The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Giving, Choices

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