Quotes and Sayings About Asking Questions
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
-- Bill James -
The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
-- Bing Gordon -
Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
-- Brian Tracy -
I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
-- Carl Reiner -
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
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 -
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 -
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
-- Chris Lytle -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
-- Diane Sawyer -
The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.
-- Doug Dawson -
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 -
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 -
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
-- Georg Cantor -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.
-- John Lennon
