Quotes about Questioning

"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
-Voltaire

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
-Publilius Syrus

"A wise man's question contains half the answer. "
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
-Bertrand Russell

"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
-John Lubbock

"There are two sides to every question."
-Protagoras

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
-Thorstein Veblen

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."
-David Reisman

"So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)."
-Terence

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
-Toni Morrison

"Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart."
-Omaha Proverb

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
-James Thurber

"To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm."
-Tom C. Clark

"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."
-Tom Stoppard

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
-Ernest Gaines

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein

"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us."
-John F. Kennedy

"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
-Peter Abelard

"I feel we'll find in jury questioning that many of them are aware of what happened in the federal trial."
-Don Samuel

"The police are planning to transport them to Jakarta for further questioning."
-Anton Bachrul Alam

"You are questioning all the elements at the root of French identity."
-Nicolas Baverez

"This is not about character assassination, ... This is about questioning the ideology of a person who has continuously throughout her career made, really, a life's work of eroding and destroying the mission of the department she is now being named to lead."
-Robert F. Kennedy

"There are definitely earnings fears creeping in the market. Investors are seriously questioning whether Japanese companies can really attain existing earnings growth forecasts for next year."
-Takashi Miyazaki

"We're beefing up checks at border crossings and international airports. The questioning of travelers will be a bit more thorough."
-Canada Customs

"He said that the man that they had been questioning admitted what he had done and he took my daughter's life."
-Angela Bryant

"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil."
-Georges Bataille

"More voices are being heard questioning the tactics, the military operations that are going on, the bombing, and also behind that, wondering whether the issue is far more complicated than this military campaign makes it appear."
-Hugo Young