Question Quotes: Thought-Provoking Reflections on Inquiry and Curiosity

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

Euripides, Poet

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions"

Susan Sontag, Author

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

Rick Wright, Musician

"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income"

George Foreman, Athlete

"Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?"

Elizabeth Janeway, Author

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion"

Voltaire, Writer

"A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked"

Jay London, Comedian

"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them"

Carol Alt, Model

"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new"

Og Mandino, Author

"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"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 a while and watch your answers change"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers"

James Thurber, Comedian

"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens"

Andre Agassi, Athlete