Quotes About Questions

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

There are no mysteries, only unanswered questions that have no answers, and the memory of people who enter and leave our lives, for a short or long time, and stay only as long as they are meant to. We cannot change the patterns of life, but only observe them, and bend to their will with grace.

What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time.

You might be surprised," Bram said, picking up his pen again. "You'll answer my questions?" "Aye," Paris nodded, "but not tonight. I'm entertaining a friend. Remain a few nights and I will let you have your… how did you put it last time… your interview with a vampire.

to frame the decision, asking questions about the data and the methodology, working to understand the results, and using them to improve outcomes for your organization.

Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.

Min had innumerable questions, and Chung-Cha tried to answer them all as best she could. "Is the Supreme Leader really three meters tall?" "I have never met him, so I do not know." "They say he is the strongest person on earth and his mind is full of all the knowledge in the world." "They said the same to me about his father.

Amos Decker was standing on the rear deck of a house where he and his FBI colleague, Alex Jamison, were staying while visiting Jamison's sister. He used two fingers to neck-cradle his third bottle of beer of the evening while he contemplated these questions. He knew that most people never thought about these issues, because they had no reason to do so. Yet accurately answering the latter question dominated Decker's professional life, which was really the only life he had left

Listen, ask questions, don't believe anything is true unless you can corroborate it, and don't trust anyone.

perhaps because we have at present no coherent world view, there is a widespread tendency to ignore the psychological and social importance of such questions almost altogether.

Even in science to raise fundamental questions can be very disturbing. Somebody could feel, 'I'd like to have the answer to this right away, and get out of this unpleasant state of disturbance', and he would never get anywhere.

Human knowledge, by its nature, has limits, so some questions must remain mysteries. Some religions treat such mysteries as secrets that the gods choose to hide from humans; others, such as Buddhism, treat them as ultimate riddles that are not worth pursuing.

let's discuss the purpose of this presentation. If we're here for the team to put on a show for me, then you're right, I should sit back and listen. But if the point is for me to learn about your business and its issues, then we need to conduct the presentation in a way that facilitates my learning. I need to ask questions right away, get the answers I need, and then move on.

Not only did I spend time in advance of meetings generating some key questions for teams

I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart.

Le domande più brutali sono quelle che ti costringono a mentire

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

By refusing to respect you and your needs, the other is bringing about a certain set of natural consequences, which themselves can become the other's teacher. Your job is to simply facilitate the learning process, beginning by asking reality-testing questions, and proceeding to warnings.

Why must you plague me with these questions in the middle of the night?

But any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Pero cómo contestar a preguntas nunca hechas, si, además, una es para vosotras tan nadie.

Chiedo scusa alle grandi domande per le piccole risposte che ho dato.