Questioning Quotes

539 quotes by 427 authors

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams
He who has a why can endure any how — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever — Chinese Proverbs
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence — Joan Z. Borysenko
He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers — African Proverb
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know — William Shakespeare
There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question — William Shakespeare
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of… — Thomas Jefferson
The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to… — Rabindranath Tagore
Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them — Unknown Author
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen… — Unknown Author
If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his… — Stephen Potter
In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'no comment' with some degree of knowledge — Stephen Potter
In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers… — Ruth Goode
I hate questioning, but I love wrestling. — Unknown Author
To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a… — Tom C. Clark
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies? — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. — Thomas Carlyle
It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture. — Unknown Author

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