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Quotes About Questions

Silence is the best answer for all questions...Smiling is the best reaction in all situations.
~ Unknown
These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Thus, when the permed chanteuse whose chair I occupied returned, it was with confidence that I stood up and said to Lana, Let's go to the bar. Principle five: statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no. She shrugged and offered me her hand.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.
~ Unknown
They really don't care about your answers if they ask you wrong questions.
~ Unknown
the Bible is necessary for knowledge leading to salvation, instructions leading to spiritual growth, answers to the ultimate questions, and for knowledge about reality. It is the necessary precondition for all knowledge and for any rational apprehension of God and the universe.
~ Unknown
Le Canada, c'est bien – une destination qui n'intéresse personne, qu'on n'aille pas lui poser des questions auxquelles il ne saurait pas répondre. Je bois du sirop d'érable, les Hells Angels sont toujours aussi méchants, la coke est bon marché, les filles sont chaudes mais il faut s'habituer à l'accent.
~ Virginie Despentes
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
~ Voltaire
You should not ask questions without knowledge.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
~ W. Edwards Deming
MBWA (management by walking around) is hardly ever effective. The reason is that someone in management, walking around, has little idea about what questions to ask, and usually does not pause long enough at any spot to get the right answer.
~ W. Edwards Deming
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
~ W. H. Auden
America has many faults, one of the worst being that Americans always want answers to everything, and when you tell them there aren't any, are very upset. But when they are in a tough spot they do look forward...
~ W.H. Auden
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
~ John Cage
When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
~ Pablo Neruda
I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.
~ Mandy Moore
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
~ Peter Ustinov
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, Euphoria
People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.
~ Rupert Grint
If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.
~ Brian Baird
We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not pray, "Thank you for this opportunity to suffer," but rather pled desperately for an escape. And yet he was willing to undergo suffering in service of a higher goal. In the end he left the hard questions ("if there be any other way . . .") to the will of the Father, and trusted that God could use even the outrage of his death for good.
~ Philip Yancey
risk to my life, I could not become one of those. I was a young woman living at the very heart of a world that was starting to ask questions, living at a time when men and women thought that questions were the most important thing. And who could say where these questions might take us? The tables that had come from my father for John Dee might contain a
~ Philippa Gregory
He had to interview Caroline Malloy? He had to let her interview him ?—to ask questions about what he liked, how he lived, what he ate ? And then, as though that weren't enough, he had to be Caroline for a day? Did Miss Applebaum go to Torture School to come up with these projects or did she think them up all by herself in the dead of night?
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Are there bears in Western Virginia? she whispered. Cut it out, Caroline, said Eddie. But Beth gave a little gasp. Are there? If there are bears in West Virginia, they're way up in the mountains, Eddie said. Caroline knew that Eddie didn't know what she was talking about any more than Beth knew about bears, but she didn't ask any other questions because she didn't really want to know the answers.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor