Asking Questions famous quotes

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.
-- Alan Lightman

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I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.
-- Alex Haley

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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Asking Questions #Police #Ordinary

Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.
-- Arnold Wesker

#Country #Book #Asking Questions

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
-- Athol Fugard

#Heart #Asking Questions #Judging

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot

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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
-- Bertrand Russell

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I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
-- Bill James

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The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
-- Bing Gordon

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Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
-- Brian Tracy

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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
-- Carl Reiner

#Asking Questions #People #Answers

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

#Life #Men #Asking Questions

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Asking Questions #People #Understanding

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
-- Chris Lytle

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At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
-- Chris Van Allsburg

#Writing #Asking Questions #Illustration

Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."
-- David Sedaris

#Asking Questions #People #Office

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.
-- Denis Waitley

#Asking Questions #Phones #Waiting

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Asking Questions #Stories #Literature

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.
-- Doug Dawson

#Asking Questions #Effort #Trying

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
-- Eddie Marsan

#Hard Work #Simple #Asking Questions

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.
-- Edward Hodnett

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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
-- Georg Cantor

#Education #Art #Asking Questions

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.
-- Hemant Mehta

#Asking Questions #Atheism #Age

There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#Teaching #Asking Questions #Understanding

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.
-- Jim Goldberg

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I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
-- Jim Lehrer

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

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While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Asking Questions #Discovery #Important

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Good Friend #Thinking #Asking Questions

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.
-- Junot Diaz

#Mean #Asking Questions #Long

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
-- Karen Hughes

#College #Thinking #Asking Questions

We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method.
-- Karl Barry Sharpless

#Player #Asking Questions #Games

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.
-- Kavita Ramdas

#Writing #Mean #Asking Questions

It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.
-- Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

#Children #School #Asking Questions

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.
-- Lesley Hazleton

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Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.
-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Christian #Prayer #Asking Questions

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
-- Lillian Smith

#Time #Asking Questions #Diversity

Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.
-- Luci Swindoll

#Asking Questions #Giving #Together

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.
-- Malcolm X

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Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.
-- Malcolm X

#Book #Men #Asking Questions

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.
-- Martha Ostenso

#Work #Men #Asking Questions

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
-- Mary Astor

#Asking Questions #Gone #Asking

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
-- Max Beerbohm

#Education #Real #Asking Questions

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
-- Michael Dell

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Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.
-- Michael Hyatt

#Asking Questions #Way #Grows

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.
-- Michael Stuhlbarg

#Spiritual #Thinking #Asking Questions

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.
-- Nikki Sixx

#Asking Questions #Answers #Sometimes

How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.
-- Paul Nurse

#Jobs #School #Asking Questions

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
-- Peter Drucker

#Asking Questions #Ignorant #Economy

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.
-- Peyton Manning

#Love Is #Thinking #Asking Questions

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
-- Primo Levi

#Believe #Asking Questions #Numbers

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.
-- Rumi

#Asking Questions #Calendars #Bread

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.
-- Steig Larsson

#Asking Questions #People #Asking

I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?
-- Stephen R. Bissette

#Sibling #Moving #Asking Questions

Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being?
-- Suzy Welch

#Jobs #Doors #Asking Questions

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
-- Terry Gilliam

#Acceptance #Asking Questions #Given

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.
-- Terry Gross

#Confused #Thinking #Asking Questions

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.
-- Tom Felton

#Asking Questions #Way #Asking

If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.
-- Tony Robbins

#Motivational #Data #Asking Questions

What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
-- Tony Robbins

#Pain #Loss #Asking Questions

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
-- Trevor Phillips

#Asking Questions #Asking

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
-- Viggo Mortensen

#Blood #Asking Questions #People

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
-- Vikram Seth

#Asking Questions #Answering Questions #Shy

Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.
-- Virginia Axline

#Asking Questions #Would Be #Doe

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
-- Werner Heisenberg

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Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
-- William S. Burroughs

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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.
-- William Thurston

#Math #Ideas #Asking Questions

The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.
-- Aubrey Malphurs

#Unique #Asking Questions #Leader

As I started getting older and started to learn about the world, my friends would tell me about video games and dirt bikes and stuff, and I'd be like, "Oh, I got none of that." I started asking questions, like, "Why we can't get this stuff?" And it was like, "Well, we work hard to make sure da da da..."
-- Fetty Wap

#Hard Work #Asking Questions #Games

At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.
-- George Pattison

#Meaningful #Thinking #Asking Questions

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.
-- Jill Douglas

#Asking Questions #Interesting #People

When I stop asking questions, something's wrong.
-- Rene Marie

#Asking Questions #Asking

Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?
-- Robin Epstein

#Thinking #Asking Questions #People

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.
-- Thomas Sadoski

#Thinking #Asking Questions #People

Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.
-- Christian Boltanski

#Sex #Asking Questions #Ends

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.
-- Jacob Neusner

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We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
-- James Stephens

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At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.
-- Joe Sutter

#Successful #Asking Questions #Important

Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.
-- Kim Anderson

#Art #Thinking #Asking Questions

Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.
-- Malik Yoba

#Asking Questions #Offering #Osmosis