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Quotes About Questions

A lunch with Arthur Miller was something I could have only fantasized about as a boy, as a young man, even the week before. I asked a million questions, and I recall quite vividly that he confirmed for me that life was indeed meaningless.
~ Woody Allen
Kalau begitu, apa gunanya punya akal, Richard Parker? Apakah sekadar untuk memenuhi kebutuhan sehari-hari —- mencari makanan, pakaian, dan atap untuk berteduh? Kenapa akal tak bisa memberikan jawaban-jawaban yang lebih kompleks? Kenapa kita bisa menanyakan hal yang tak ada jawabannya? Buat apa punya jala begitu besar kalau sedikit sekali ikan yang bisa ditangkap?
~ Yann Martel
What democracy requires is vigorous public debate, not information. Of course, it needs information too, but the kind of information it needs can be generated only bys debate. We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our own ideas about the world to the test of public controversy.
~ Christopher Lasch
One of my questions?' Dalton asked. 'Yes ... one of many that keep you from having the heart of a Knight of the Prince. You must face all of them, Dalton. The King and His Son are not afraid of questions.
~ Unknown
Enquanto eu tiver perguntas e não houver resposta continuarei a escrever.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mientras tenga preguntas y no tenga respuesta continuaré escribiendo.
~ Clarice Lispector
The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The purpose of art," James Baldwin wrote, "is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers." He might have been channeling Dostoyevsky's statement that "we have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.
~ Claudia Rankine
But I still have questions, and the way to get answers is to bear her corrections.
~ Claudia Rankine
These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Then each family circle gathers at the hearthstone and the pups sit silently and listen and when the story's done they ask many questions: "What is Man?" they'll ask. Or perhaps: "What is a city?" Or: "What is a war?
~ Clifford D. Simak
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
~ Herbert Simon
And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
~ Heston Blumenthal
The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.
~ Hilari Bell
Perhaps there were no answers to questions like that. Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.
~ Liane Moriarty
You should never ask actors about politics.
~ Liev Schreiber
Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.
~ Unknown
You don't struggle with these questions?" "No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have." "An American flaw.
~ Lily King
Be aware: When we understand the structures of thought, we ask important questions implied by these structures.
~ Unknown
Even today, the contours of what is often referred to as the "Article III jurisdiction" of the federal courts remain contested. The important points here are simply these: that questions concerning the federal courts' jurisdiction are anchored deeply in the nation's constitutional origins, and that the Supreme Court itself has provided the answers.
~ Unknown
I hope you boys will excuse me, but I would rather the State Police answered all questions. I am sure you understand how I feel.
~ Unknown
Because Life is about satisfying your ego, you must ask yourself two questions: Where is your ultimate destination? And, are you content with what it took to arrive there?
~ Unknown
It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.
~ Unknown
Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?" "They're ravished in haylofts?" she inquired hopefully.
~ Lisa Kleypas