Questions And Answers Quotes

• Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  World

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

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Witty, Lying

  Oliver Goldsmith (1898). “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...”

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Questioning

  "An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick". Book by Patricia Telesco, November 1, 2001.

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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

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• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Funny, Education, Teaching

  "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

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

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

  James Thurber

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

  Bono

  Thoughtful, Perspective, Asking The Right Questions

  Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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  Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  Tony Robbins

  Success, Tattoo, Business

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2014

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• 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

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Depression, Patience, Mindfulness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• 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

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• 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)

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• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Want, Reasonable

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• 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”

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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