Questioning Quotes

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So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

- Adriana Cruz

There are two sides to every question.

- Adm James Crowe

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

- Voltaire

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

- James Thurber

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

- Adrienne Leptich

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

- Stephen Jay Gould

One`s first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one`s last is to come to terms with everything.

- Abdul Rauf

In all affairs it`s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

- Bertrand Russell

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein

I hate questioning, but I love wrestling.

- Aaron Smith

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don`t know the answer

- Douglas Adams

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

- Garson Kanin

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Naguib Mahfouz

He who has a why can endure any how

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, `Where have I gone wrong?` Then a voice says to me, `This is going to take more than one night.`

- Charles M. Schulz

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

- Charles de Lint

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever

- Chinese Proverbs

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

- James Nathan Miller

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

- Martin Luther King

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

- Nancy Willard