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Quotes About Questions

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
~ Anonymous
You have minds," Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant's finger grazes the back of his uniform. "But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
she loves to ask them about their lives, to wonder what adventures they've had, what lusts, what secret follies they carry in their hearts.
~ Anthony Doerr
You have minds. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
Life: it's happening beyond the mills, beyond the gates. Out there people chase questions of great importance.
~ Anthony Doerr
Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
Life: it's happening beyond the mills, beyond the gates. Out there people chase questions of great importance.
~ Anthony Doerr
To discover fossils, he told himself, was to reclaim answers to important questions.
~ Anthony Doerr
I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.
~ Anthony Horowitz
said. "Who are you? Was my uncle working for you? Did you kill him?" "So many questions," Crawley muttered. "But I'm afraid we're not authorized to give you the answers." The second man lifted his hand and Alex saw that he was holding a gun. He stood up behind the desk, holding the file as if to protect himself. "No…" he began. The man
~ Anthony Horowitz
I felt completely out of my depth. There were so many questions I wanted to ask him but at the same time I was afraid of offending him.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions.
~ David Grinspoon
If someone is making a very expensive purchase decision, they typically have a lot of questions about the fit and about what to wear the item with. In some cases, they'll ask for additional images or want to contact the designer.
~ Aslaug Magnusdottir
It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
~ Jane Pauley
It's a little bit of a shame when I see some fans saying, 'Can you do me a favor and not ask questions to the fighters or the athletes about political stuff, cause we don't care about their opinions, we don't want to hear that, this is not that platform, if we wanted to hear that we would turn to CNN or FOX or ABC,' or whatever the case may be.
~ Aljamain Sterling
There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
~ Victor LaValle
Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
~ Patrick Lencioni
I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
~ Jess Row
Enthusiasm. Order: self-organization. Think in terms of others' interests. Questions. Key issue. Silence: listen. Sincerity: deserve confidence. Knowledge of my business. Appreciation and praise. Smile: happiness. Remember names and faces. Service and prospecting. Closing the sale: action.
~ Frank Bettger
But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
~ Frank Herbert
Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.
~ Frank Herbert
In the Bene Gesserit Way, he opened his mind to Jacurutu, seeking to know nothing about it. Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning. For a few moments he allowed himself merely to resonate, making no demands, asking no questions.
~ Frank Herbert