Questions And Answers Quotes - Page 2

• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Asking Questions, Wrong Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.139, Ultramarine Publishing

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Thinking, Space

  7 Copy quote

• The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Humility, Faces

  National Observer, January 20, 1964.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beautiful

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Courage, Science, Asking Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Serious, Naive

  6 Copy quote

• By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Men, Disposition

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.86, MIT Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

  Milan Kundera

  Serious, Naive

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Spiritual, Life Is, Priests

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Sep 17, 2016

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Graduation, Essence, Academic Freedom

  11 Copy quote

• If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

  Bob Monkhouse

  People, Sunglasses, Blind

  19 Copy quote

• A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

  Bill Bryson

  Doors, Church, Yards

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.55, VNR AG

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

  Elena Ferrante

  Book, Mean, Reason

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

  Steven Wright

  Country, Phones, Speech

  17 Copy quote

• Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

  Elie Wiesel

  Answers, Eternity

  5 Copy quote

• It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Littles, Over The Edge

  1962 Letting Go, pt.1, ch.1.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Novelists, Bookstores

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

  David B. Coe

  Writing, Encounters, Answers

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

  12 Copy quote

• My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.

  Lois Gould

  Nuclear, Bombs, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

  Hu Shih

  Meaningful, Live Life, Men

  11 Copy quote