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Quotes About Questions

If you never ask questions, you'll never get answers. You can just wait for the solution to drop out of the sky, but sometimes you have to take initiative. Consider this a nudge. You have every right to question something that feels off in your life.
~ Unknown
Life is very complicated, so don't try to find out answers. Because when you find answers life changes the questions.
~ Unknown
Nous sentons très bien que notre sagesse commence où celle de l'auteur finit, et nous voudrions qu'il nous donnât des réponses, quand tout ce qu'il peut faire est de nous donner des désirs.
~ Marcel Proust
seis años son suficientes para hacerse muchas preguntas y, si no eres una idiota, para haberles encontrado respuesta a las que la tienen. Las otras, sencillamente hay que borrarlas del disco duro. Lo significativo es saber distinguirlas.
~ Unknown
As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn't lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries.
~ Marcelo Gleiser
But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.
~ Marcus Sakey
And then, last, the questions, the same asked by any parent standing over a child in a hospital bed: How did we get here? This can't really happen, can it? Will you take me instead?
~ Marcus Sakey
Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
Once you've listed each of these fears or reasons for not buying, now comes the critical step: How many of these issues (fears, worries, concerns, questions, objections, and others) have already been addressed well (a few sentences don't count) on your company website? How many have been addressed within your sales process?
~ Unknown
I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know.
~ Unknown
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
~ Margaret Mead
Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.
~ Unknown
Had MacIntyre sensed the approach of his own death? Were Porter's dreams a foretelling of the accident? Porter has an open mind on these questions. "I think the starting point for any sort of weirdness is life itself," he says. "If we're here, then it seems to me that anything is possible.
~ Unknown
And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. RAINER MARIA RILKE , Letters to a Young Poet
~ Unknown
I have all these questions in my head. Like, Could we write? Before you go, could we do something? I mean, is this honestly the last time I see you? But I don't ask. Because Who knows? Instead I hug him. and I am hugged. Hard. And for a long time we stay that way. I feel his chin on my hair, the weight of his head on mine. I think, this is Jonathan. I know Jonathan. And he knows me.
~ Mariah Fredericks
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no ' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
~ Marie Osmond
Learner/Judger Questions We all ask both kinds of questions, and we have the power to choose which ones to ask in any moment.
~ Unknown
Do people feel respected by me? Do I encourage others to take initiative, ask questions, and contribute their own ideas?
~ Unknown
Like everyone else, I believed the way to fix a problem was to look for the right answers. Instead, Joseph showed me that the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions. The skills he taught me rescued my career and saved my marriage as well.
~ Unknown
the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions.
~ Unknown
The open teacher, like a good therapist, establishes rapport and resonance, sensing unspoken needs, conflicts, hopes, and fears. Respecting the learner's autonomy, the teacher spends more time helping to articulate the urgent questions than demanding right answers.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.
~ Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten
I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.
~ Hod Lipson
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 people's freedom and security.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.