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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
-Chinese Proverb
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
-Chinese Proverb
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Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
-Danish proverb
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Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
-Thea Alexander
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Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
-Louis Armstrong
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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.
-Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
-Richard Bach, Running from Safety, 2000
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
-Francis Bacon
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
-Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
-Francis Bacon
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Ask with urgency and passion.
-Arthur Balfour
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
-Bernard Baruch
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Matthew 7:7-8
-Bible
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The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.
-Otto von Bismarck, Speech Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates, September 29, 1862
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
-Arthur Bloch
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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.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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?
-Jim Bower
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-Jacob Bronowski
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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!
-Franklyn Broude
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
-Edmund Burke
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For every why he had a wherefore.
-Samuel Butler
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Ask the right questions. The fastest way to change the answers you receive
-Lee J. Colan, 107 Ways to Stick to It
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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.
-Frank Moore Colby
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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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?
-Charles Connolly
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
-Lord Darling
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You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
-Barbara De Angelis
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
-Decouvertes
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
-Edsger W. Dijkstra
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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
-Peter Drucker
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
-Albert Einstein
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
-Stewart Emery
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
-Bergen Evans
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
-John Fowles
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
-Shakti Gawain
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
-Johann von Goethe
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Socrates liked to tease his interlocutors by saying that the only thing he knew was that he knew nothing. There is a deep insight in this, for the one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of knowledge and understanding. Such illusion abounds, and one of the first tasks of philosophy
-A. C. (Anthony Clifford) Grayling, On Becoming a Philosopher
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Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
-Robert Half
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You create your opportunities by asking for them.
-Patty Hansen
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
-Abraham J. Heschel
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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.
-Edward Hodnett
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
-Eric Hoffer
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Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
-Doug Horton
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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
-Anthony Jay
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
-Samuel Johnson
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
-Claude L
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Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
-Madeleine L'Engle
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
-John Locke
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What I point out to people is that it's silly to be afraid that you're not going to get what you want if you ask. Because you are already not getting what you want. They always laugh about that because they realize it's so true. Without asking you already have failed, you already have nothing. What are you afraid of? You're afraid of getting what you already have! It's ridiculous! Who cares if you don't get it when you ask for it, because, before you ask for it, you don't have it anyway. So there's really nothing to be afraid of.
-Marcia Martin
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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
-Steve Miller
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Man will not live without answers to his questions.
-Hans J. Morgenthau
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
-Thomas Paine
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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 to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
-Anthony Robbins
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Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.
-Anthony Robbins
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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
-Jim Rohn
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A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
-Percy Ross
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
-Percy Ross
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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful -- and neglected -- secret to success and happiness.
-Percy Ross
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
-Bertrand Russell
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos (page: 193), 1980
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Good questions outrank easy answers.
-Paul A. Samuelson
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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
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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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
-William Shakespeare
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No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
-George Bernard Shaw
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I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white strips?
Or white with black strips?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with sad days?
Or are you sad with happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on
And on and on he went.
I'll never ask a zebra
About stripes
Again.
-Shel Silverstein, Zebra Question
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
-Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, London, 1864
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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.
-Leo Stein
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-Charles Steinmetz
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If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
-W. Clement Stone
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-James Thurber
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I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?
-Lord Trent
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The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
-Source Unknown
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Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.
-Source Unknown
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There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.
-Source Unknown
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When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.
-Source Unknown
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The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.
-Source Unknown
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An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.
-Source Unknown
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An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.
-Source Unknown
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Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
-Source Unknown
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He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
-Source Unknown
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
-S. Tobin Webster
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We should not only master questions,but also act upon them,and act definitely.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Books about Questions
