Truth Seeking Quotes · Page 20

“You can't know the answer until you ask the question.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

— Edward de Bono

Young man, you have the question backwards.

— Bill Russell

“The "question" is the smallest and greatest unit of discovery.”

— Ted Agon

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

— Mos Def

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

— Anonymous

I can 't answer you all of your questions but I learn as I live

— Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley

The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

— Mason Cooley

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

— Hakuin Ekaku

People from different backgrounds approach a subject in different ways and ask different questions.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.

— David Thewlis

“Sometimes if you received an answer, the question might be taken away.”

— Douglas Adams

There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.

— Meher Baba

Experience is looking in the past to find an answer, genius is looking in the future to raise a question.

— Tasneem Hameed

“Questions do not prove anything in themselves; rather, they provide opportunities to investigate an answer.”

— Gordon Nickel

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Doubt them. Question them, suspect them¦and take a good, long look into their hearts. Humans are the kind of beings who cant…

— Anonymous

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone…

— Christopher Isherwood

I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany…

— Lydia Davis

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is…

— J. M. Coetzee

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points…

— Edward Hodnett

Love the questions themselves...Live the questions now and have confidence that someday far into the future, [I will live my] way into…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had…

— Sylvia Plath

An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?'…

— Jim Nabors

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“How do we connect meaningfully with each other, as meaningfully as possible, within the limits of language and time? How does empathy…

— Brian Christian

We're affable guys in They Might Be Giants. We're not gonna do the periscope-down thing, but it's a little bit mind-bending. The…

— John Flansburgh

I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to…

— Julian Baggini

I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What…

— Neale Donald Walsch

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and…

— Zoe Weil

The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A…

— Nateman

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

— Steven Novella

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

— Mark Lawrence

“questions are effective persuasive devices.”

— Adam M. Grant

I don't have answers. I have questions.

— James Hillman

“Asking questions is the key to understanding.”

— John Piper

“Is that a question or an answer?”

— Andrea Smith

“I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it.”

— Lucille Bluth

Life has more questions than answers.

— Alex Low