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Quotes About Questions

great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.
~ Susan Neiman
Believe that your intuition will give you the answers when you ask yourself questions. Give your question to your intuition rather than trying to think it through or analyze it."
~ Josh King Madrid
Combien d'amours ont fait crier ton lit ? Combien d'années ont ridé tes yeux ? Qui a vidé tes seins épuisés ? Je t'ai regardé avec mes yeux de plomb Et mes illusions ont éclaté Laissant derrière elles Ta vieillesse Qui ne peut répondre à mes questions.
~ Joyce Mansour
La religión contesta, a su modo, problemas insoslayables que son también los de la filosofía y la ciencia, no frecuentadas por el hombre común. Por otra parte, los científicos no dan respuesta a las preguntas últimas, y las religiones están imposibilitadas de comprobar sus conclusiones y suplantan la carencia de datos reales con mitos y fantasías que calman no solo el temor ante lo desconocido, sino también la necesidad insaciable de conocer.
~ Juan José Sebreli
La religión contesta, a su modo, problemas insoslayables que son también los de la filosofía y la ciencia, no frecuentadas por el hombre común. Por otra parte, los científicos no dan respuesta a las preguntas últimas, y las religiones están imposibilitadas de comprobar sus conclusiones y suplantan la carencia de datos reales con mitos y fantasías que calman no solo el temor ante lo desconocido, sino también la necesidad insaciable de
~ Juan José Sebreli
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
~ Jude Law
My emphasis on language also comes from a deep conviction that language shapes our thoughts. You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.
~ Judea Pearl
Counterfactual reasoning, which deals with what-ifs, might strike some readers as unscientific. Indeed, empirical observation can never confirm or refute the answers to such questions.
~ Judea Pearl
As you review your efforts, can you honestly see the food game? Who won? Who lost? Questions about winning and losing bring us to the meat of the matter.
~ Judi Hollis
The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
So when the weather wasn't too overbearingly hot he tucked her arm in the crook of his elbow, and they walked about town, running errands and asking questions. And falling in love
~ Julia Quinn
You're a bundle of questions this afternoon, aren't you?" "I wouldn't have to be," she retorted, clearly regaining her wits, "if you'd actually say something of substance." "Until next time, Miss Bridgerton," he murmured, slipping out into the hall. "But when?" came her exasperated voice. He laughed all the way out.
~ Julia Quinn
One needs a certain base of knowledge before one can ask sensible questions.
~ Julia Quinn
How many great mysteries are there in life, really?" No one answered, so Colin guessed, "Forty-two?" She
~ Julia Quinn
Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.
~ Karyn Kusama
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
~ Penn Jillette
The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.
~ Martin Rees
Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.
~ Blase J. Cupich
Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.
~ Erin Brockovich
You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
~ Kirk Kerkorian
It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.
~ Kwasi Kwarteng
For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
~ Kenneth Chenault
I remember the first 'fan expo' we did for 'Killjoys,' we were so new, there wasn't a lot of information out yet. But there were so many fans so excited already. And they were asking really intellectual questions about the show.
~ Hannah John-Kamen