Quotes About Questions

E já não era jovem. A gente sente isso quando as complicações se somam, as respostas se esquivam das perguntas.

It was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions. There were more people who told the truth than those who lied. Very few people lied well. What was most disappointing to him was when a person turned out to be no different than the next.

was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions. There were more people who told the truth than those who lied. Very few people lied well.

People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth in the face of such incredible success? ... A third frequently asked question is: "Girl, where you from? Trinidad? Guyana? Dominican Republic? You married? You got kids?" This is mostly asked by guys on the sidewalk selling I LOVE NEW YORK paraphernalia in New York City.

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.

I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).

Questions stripped away the platitudes and undermined the verities that provided a sheltered, nursery existence for people who did not want to think. Questions were the obligation of the intellect.

At Bologna, the students held control of their university, hired and fired professors, fined them for unexcused absences or lateness, for wandering from their subject, and for dodging difficult questions.

mathematicians of that century, like those of most great periods, were the very physicists and astronomers who raised the questions,

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

When everything is lost (peel it all away) Haunting us with questions (asking) Will we... Ever find the smile inside (no), is it hidden Behind the sweating eyes (bleeding) Dead inside a scream that's pouring from me

The church is unlike school. Simply, because you can't ask questions while the service is being delivered.

To become a complete philosopher, you need to familiarize yourself with all the difficult questions.

the biblical texts themselves might suggest that there were better questions to be asking, which are actually screened out by concentrating on the wrong ones.

The purpose of an open mind, [Chesterton] said, is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.

They ask three simple questions: Who is going to be at special risk when this happens? What can we do to help? And who shall we send?

the wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike.

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

his consort didn't recognize the fear that drove her to ask such questions, a fear that could be encapsulated in seven simple words that formed a vicious sentence: Will this flaw make you reject me? ... She knew she held Raphael's heart, she knew, and yet a wary, wounded part of her worried he'd change his mind one day, find her no longer worthy of loving.