Question Quotes: Thought-Provoking Reflections on Inquiry and Curiosity

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are"

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing"

"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

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

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"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

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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

Susan Sontag, Author

"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself"

Patrick McGoohan, Actor

"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

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

Og Mandino, Author

"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"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

"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers"

Janis Joplin, Musician

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

Voltaire, Writer

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"It is not every question that deserves an answer"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"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

"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

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

Jay London, Comedian

"There are no right answers to wrong questions"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Never answer a question from a farmer"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"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

"He who frames the question wins the debate"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"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

"Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master"

Joy Page, Actress

"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against"

Bill Walton, Athlete

"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