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Quotes About Questions

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
~ Douglas Hurd
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.
~ Joyce Meyer
It's tough... My real father - I have my stepdad, my mom remarried - but my real father lived in Thailand, so I barely saw him as it is. So it was really hard for me to go back there and just, I feel like I have a lot of unanswered questions.
~ Cheryl Burke
It is a dream come true to be working with Mr. Bachchan again. I played his sister in 'Shahenshah,' but then I had many questions unanswered as an actress.
~ Supriya Pathak
The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.
~ Graham Moore
I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.
~ Condoleezza Rice
We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
~ Peter Abrahams
Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.
~ James Dobson
I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.
~ Tom Bateman
To me, I'm honored to be able to talk to and interview people like Dr. Harry Edwards and Emmitt Smith, and just to be able to ask them questions is an unbelievable opportunity. I'm not a journalist. I have no idea about that. My wife is 10 times the writer that I am. I'm not going to be on that level.
~ Harrison Barnes
Christ! What are patterns for?
~ Amy Lowell, Selected Poems
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
~ George Jones
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
~ Confucius
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
~ Oscar Wilde
Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
~ Julio Olalla
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
~ Oscar Wilde
The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
~ Flann O'Brien
To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.
~ Hugh Prather
Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.
~ Greg Gutfeld
We are all too fond of naive answers to complex questions, because it relieves us of the necessity of thinking hard and it permits us to find a scapegoat for our own mistakes. The simple answer almost always places the blame on someone else. We need to pluralize our thinking, to recognize that if you ask the wrong question, you cannot get the right answers.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person wouldn't have opened his mind to such terror.
~ Sylvia Engdahl
The Prophet's life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us—in the course of events, trials, hardships, and our quest—that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence. Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads. The writing on the walls spells out trick questions, and as a man, you must know that you cannot reason your way out.
~ Tayari Jones