Quotes About Questions

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want a writer's opinions, you have to ask for them. What you read might surprise you.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

Hillary Clinton is so dishonest she doesn't want people peppering her with questions.

There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

our greatest enemies are those who are without certainty. The ones with questions, the ones who regard our tidy answers with unquenchable scepticism. Those questions assail us, undermine us. They…agitate. Understand, these dangerous citizens understand that nothing is simple; their stance is the very opposite of naivety. They are humbled by the ambivalence to which they are witness, and they defy our simple, comforting assertions of clarity, of a black and white world.

Go ask 'em if you like." "No. Too much effort. The bad thing about asking questions—" "Is gettin' answers, aye - you've said that before." "That is another bad thing - the way we all end up saying the same things over and over again.

It is my feeling,' she said, haltingly, 'that a faith that delivers perfect answers to every question is not a true faith, for its only purpose is to satisfy, to ease the mind and so end its questing.

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You dream that with memories will come knowledge, and from knowledge, understanding. But for every answer you find, a thousand new questions arise. All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we're going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

Death's precipice, whether first glimpsed from afar or discovered with the next step, was ever a surprise. A promise of the sudden cessation of questions, yet there were no answers waiting beyond. Cessation would have to be enough. And so it must be for every mortal. Even as we hunger for resolution. Or, even more delusional: redemption.

Infinity lies at the heart of so many of our dreams and fears and unanswerable questions: How big is the universe? How long is forever? How powerful is God? In every branch of human thought, from religion and philosophy to science and mathematics, infinity has befuddled the world's finest minds for thousands of years. It has been banished, outlawed, and shunned. It's always been a dangerous idea.

There are some questions, after all, that we never get answers to. Some doors remain locked forever, and that's life.

Meanwhile, Page pushed for a test that prospective investors would be required to pass: answer three questions about Google, just to make sure that you understand the company and aren't just making a trendy bid. It was the closest he could come to demanding potential investors' SAT scores. The SEC nixed the idea.

What is important in science (I leave philosophy to others) is not the solution of some popular scientific problems of one's own day, but understanding the world. In the course of this work, one finds out what sort of explanations are possible, and what sort of problems can lead to those explanations. The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons of philosophy is to teach us how to live with the questions unanswered , rather than settle for unsatisfactory but popular answers.

She appeared to be confused as if Finnigin's questions had thrown her into a state where she herself had begun to ask questions.

I hated involving her in this, but knew I already had, even though I was doing it now. Trying to understand all this time-altering stuff made my head spin. Maybe one day I might learn how to contact Einstein and he could answer those questions.

Being open to change, asking questions, being rebellious, being creative—that is how a civilization grows and becomes like a huge banyan tree—giving shelter and shade to many people of many regions, languages, religions and gender.

Practical knowledge is always surrounded by questions while theoretical knowledge always surrounded by success !!!