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Chinese Proverb

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

Richard Bach

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Bergen Evans

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Carl Sagan

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Scott Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions

Edward Hodnett

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Angel Blessing

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Thomas Merton

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Terence

So many men so many questions.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

James Thurber

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

Sam Keen

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

West African Saying

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

James Grover Thurber

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

Jim Rohn

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask

C. Ryland

Don't ask silly questions if you don't want foolish answers.

William L. DeAndrea

Life's two Great Questions Why me and What do I do now

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live the questions.

Naguib, Mahfouz

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

Ralph Gerard

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Frank Kingdon

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Edgar Cayce

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

John Lennon

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Le Duc de Levis

It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his questions than by his answers.

Carl Sagan

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

William Baker

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.

Lord Billingsley

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

James Arthur Baldwin

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'

Richard Bach

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Lester Bangs

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Clarence Birdseye

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Molly Ringwald

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions

Joan Rivers

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

William Safire

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie.

Frank Moore Colby

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Leo Rosten

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able

Isaac Asimov

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Joey Adams

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I

William Wister Haines

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

Woody Allen

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

American Indian Proverb

Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense

Wystan Hugh Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the an

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

Any questions ?

Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

This is a fried egg on drugs. Any questions?

Every time I have all the answers, someone changes the questions.

Truth fears no questions.

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

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

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

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Good questions outrank easy answers.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

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

"Mulder! FBI! Drop the sword MacLeod, I have a few questions

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers.

Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

"Splat. This is your brain on the street. Any questions?" - Beavis

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

"Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are." -Oscar Wilde

"Nothing more will I teach you today. Clear your mind of questions."

"Those are two hypo-rhetorical questions." -- G. Bush to M. Dukakis

"I seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions."-Caine

"Ask me the questions, bridge-keeper. I'm not afraid." -- Launcelot

"Aunt Slappy, you *gotta* ask better questions!!" -- Skippy

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you come to terms with only to discover that they are still there. The real qu

"Ask me the questions, Bridge-Keeper; I'm not afraid."

"These are questions we have no business asking" - Dana Scully

"Or anus. Any questions?" -- Mike Nelson

"Mulder, FBI! Put down the drink, Morn, I have some questions."

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answ

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

"I thought you said No boring questions." - Dot