Questions Quotes

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

~ Andrew Bird

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

~ Jeff Goodell

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

~ Conor Oberst

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

~ Kofi Annan

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

~ Janis Joplin

I was raised in a dominantly Filipino family. I didn't know I was 'mixed' until I got older and started asking questions about my grandparents, the origins of our middle and last names. We were kind of textbook Pinoys. A lot of the Filipino stereotypes that were joked about by me and my friends rang very true with my family.

~ Vincent Rodriguez Iii

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

~ Thom Mayne

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

~ Frank Gehry

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'

~ Thom Mayne

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

~ William S. Burroughs

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

~ Heston Blumenthal

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

~ Sugata Mitra

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

~ Dan Pink

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

~ Edward Levi

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

~ Franz Kafka

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

~ Rachael Ray

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

~ Jonathan Sacks

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

~ Tommy Chong

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

~ Sylvia Earle

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

~ Tom Araya

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

~ W. H. Auden

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

~ Phillip Noyce

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

~ Amin Maalouf

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

~ Emma Watson

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

~ David Packard

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

~ Boman Irani

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

~ Joel Osteen

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

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

~ Susanne Langer

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

~ John Tuley

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

~ Georges St-Pierre

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

~ W. Edwards Deming

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

~ Richard Attias

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

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

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

~ Mos Def

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

~ Gerald Jampolsky

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

~ Terry Gross