QUESTION QUOTES II
quotations about questions
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
NEIL POSTMAN & CHARLES WEINGARTNER
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
ALAN LIGHTMAN
"Does God exist?", Salon, October 2, 2011
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
ANONYMOUS
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Ender's Shadow
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ask not a foolish question in public.
STILPO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Never surrender a good question for a mere answer.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Living by Questions", Oprah
Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer -- except faith.
CHARLES SHEFFIELD
Brother to Dragons
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Baltasar and Blimunda
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
She Stoops to Conquer
Suppose that you decide to have the entire "curriculum" consist of questions. These questions would have to be worth seeking answers to not only from your point of view but, more importantly, from the point of view of the students. In order to get still closer to reality, add the requirement that the questions must help the students to develop and internalize concepts that will help them to survive in the rapidly changing world of the present and future.
NEIL POSTMAN & CHARLES WEINGARTNER
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching with questions?
DANIEL H. PINK
attributed, The Future of Strategy
Fools may ask questions, but it takes wise men to answer them.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE
Prenticeana
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
Old questions are not answered--they only go out of fashion.
DONALD SCHÖN
attributed, Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
To a man full of questions make no answer at all.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
YOGI BERRA
attributed, The Yogi Book
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
INDIRA GANDHI
attributed, Misbehave: Speak Truth to Power
No one has the answer: we are answer and question.
R. D. LAING
The Politics of Family and Other Essays
An able man is not ashamed to put questions both to the humble and the wise.
TSHANG
attributed, Day's Collacon