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Quotes About Questions

You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love." So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.
~ Susan Howatch
Dan Philosophy is what you do when you don't yet know what the right questions are to ask.
~ Susan J. Blackmore
God's not going to answer all my questions...and maybe He doesn't need to. Maybe it's enough that He saved us...and He's still saving us.
~ Susan May Warren
Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.
~ Susan Meissner
One of the many optimistic convictions punctured by the riots was the belief that books were good and true - that on the shelves of libraries, you could find all the answers to all the questions. Life now seemed juddering and inexplicable, beyond the reach of what we could ever know or understand.
~ Susan Orlean
most pressing questions: Who am I? What am I doing with my life? How can what I most desire (love) be also what is most treacherous? Losing love re-focuses all of your attention away from intellectual, physical, or professional concerns and places it instead on love itself, to beg perhaps the most critical question of all: How can I permit myself to love when the possibility of loss cannot be denied? These now become the most important questions in the world and they demand exploration.
~ Susan Piver
questions continued to come. I wrote them down. And one by one, Duncan and I answered them, together. Some questions took days to answer. Some took a moment. Others had no answer, and that in itself was important. In every case, we learned something about our relationship and each other. We were delighted, appalled, infuriated and/or mystified by each other's answers.
~ Susan Piver
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
~ Susanne K. Langer
Where did they get those screams, Katniss?
~ Suzanne Collins
I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.
~ Suzanne Collins
The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life. I wish they could talk. I have questions.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
There is still so much I want to know, want to ask. But before I can say anything else, the world stops. There's silence around me. I wait a beat, and when I finally sit up, I find Harlin waiting for me—ready to start again.
~ Suzanne Young
A man who never asks himself any questions had better not try asking others. In the centre of his being a teacher should have a sense of justice and a great capacity for dejection. Teachers in a place like this, where education is taken seriously, should always bear in mind that they are the central problem, that we would provide the students with a liberal education if we merely gave them the privilege of looking on while we educated ourselves
~ Sven Birkerts
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~ Noam Chomsky
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.
~ James McBride
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
~ Albert Barnes
I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
~ Bill Ayers
People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
~ Jack O'Brien
I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.
~ Tilda Swinton
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
~ Michel Gondry
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.
~ John Shelton Reed
Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.
~ Rick Yune
Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.
~ Shannon L. Alder