Quotes About Questions

Even at a distance of decades, people invoking Gandhi's name still evade the hard questions raised by Godse in his speech.

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

Irgendwann jedoch mußten die Philosophen sich einer schlich­ten, peinlicherweise unbestreitbaren Tatsache stellen und mit ihr fertigwerden: Nicht eine der Fragen, die zweieinhalb Jahr­ tausende lang die europäische Philosophie lebendig erhalten haben, ist je zur allgemeinen Zufriedenheit gelöst worden - sie alle sind noch immer umstritten oder wurden per Dekret der Philosophen für hinfällig erklärt.

It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don't live in fear of someone else's reactions. They don't relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.

The library. Books held the answer to every question.

group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led.

There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

In the description of matter as a collection of molecules instead of a continuum, questions related to reversibility are presented for the first time in the invention, almost as a joke, of what is now known as "Maxwell's demon".

Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Science is the most we know so far about the problems confronting us. It is precisely its openness, the fact that it constantly calls current knowledge into question, which guarantees that the answers it offers are the best so far available: if you find better answers, these new answers become science.

Questions are never a problem.What counts is the way you answer them.

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my eyes and my strength, yet condemn me to linger on so long, frozen and forgotten? What use could they have for an old done man like me? ... I remember, Sam. I still remember. Remember what? Dragons, Aemon whispered.

Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.

Knowledge is what man is all about. People like you have tried to hold back progress since the beginning of time. But they failed, and you failed. Man needs to know." "Maybe," Sanders said. "But is that the only thing man needs? I don't think so. I think he also needs mystery, and poetry, and romance. I think he needs a few unanswered questions, to make him brood and wonder.

Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating

in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Only a sense of humor can help each of us face those great unanswerable questions: Why was I born? Why am I here? Why must I die? What must I do to make my life a triumph? —

The more we know about the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves and the questions we are driven to ask.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question