Asking questions Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Examinations consist of the foolish asking questions the wise cannot answer”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asking Question Asking questions Truth Seeking
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say "I don't… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob Acres I feel my courage oozing out at my finger ends. The days before these ordeals take place are… — Helen Keller Copy Share
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. — Walter Alexander Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?" was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Many students fail examinations not because they don't know anything but because they lack confidence to prove that they know anything or everything.” — Asuni LadyZeal Copy Share Image
“They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture. — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
“The breakdown of the neighborhoods also meant the end of what was essentially an extended family…With the breakdown of the extended family, too much pressure was put on the single family. Mom had no one to stay with Granny, who couldn't be depended on to set the house on fire while Mom was off grocery shopping. The people in the… — Marilyn French Copy Share
“Wise are those who keep asking questions when everyone around them think they know the answers.” — J. Bartell Copy Share Image
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions. — Karen Hughes Copy Share Image
If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it.… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“By this time it was well past midnight. You know how that is. It’s a time when you start asking questions about things that… — David Nickle Copy Share Image
