Quotes About Questions

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions.

If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

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

As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

In our environment, we have answers for almost every question we have, it depends on how sincerely we seek them.

The right questions help you discover the right answers. Be careful what questions you are asking yourself…

How can I find a way to overcome this?' is a much better question than 'Why is my life so bad?'It's the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

In this new narrative, learning ceases to focus on consuming information or knowledge that's no longer scarce. Instead, it's about asking questions, working with others to find the answers, doing real work for real audiences, and adding to, not simply taking from, the storehouse of knowledge that the Web is becoming. It's about developing the kinds of habits and dispositions that deep, lifelong learners need to succeed in a world rife with information and connections.

As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

Every hospital is, as I've noted, an interruption machine—a flood of people come to poke you and prod you and ask you questions.

I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

Some questions simply have no answers. It was meant to be that way. If we could prove empirically that God exists - what would be the point? That wouldn't be faith. That would be science class. True religion requires an act of faith - that's what defines it.

Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why. Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'. Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.