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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how
do we know it.
Author: Aristotle
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 6, no. 3)
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[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and iron.
Author: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
Source: Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer
is obvious.
Author: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
Source: Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates
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You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never
were; and I say, "Why not?"
Author: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck
Source: Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of
of the heart.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
Author: Arthur Bloch
Source: None
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... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true?
Author: Jim Bower
Source: None
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Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?
Author: Charles Connolly
Source: None
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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Author: Lord Darling
Source: None
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Author: Decouvertes
Source: None
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If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Author: Edward Hodnett
Source: None
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Author: Anthony Jay
Source: None
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Author: Joey Adams
Source: None
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Author: James Thurber
Source: None
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: None
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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.
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Source: None
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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
Author: Steve Miller
Source: None
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Author: Engineer's Motto
Source: None
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Source: None
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Good questions outrank easy answers.
Author: Paul A Samuelson
Source: None
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Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Author: Anthony Robbins
Source: None
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To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
Author: James Baldwin
Source: None
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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
Author: Leo Stein
Source: None
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Author: Charles Steinmetz
Source: None
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An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
Author: S. Tobin Webster
Source: None
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Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Author: Joseph Joubert
Source: None
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