Question Quotes

"So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?"

George W. Bush, President

"I see music as a framework for life, a way to ask the bigger questions"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"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 Joshua Heschel, Educator

"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered"

Kim Novak, Actress

"For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way"

Kim Novak, Actress

"Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother"

Plautus, Playwright

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"A wise man's question contains half the answer"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority"

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

"The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else"

Bono, Musician

"I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong"

Bono, Musician

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content"

Robert Smithson, Artist

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