Questioning Quotes

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Francis Bacon

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz

"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot

"If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life." Seneca

"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?" Charles Connolly

"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant." John Abbott

"Always question the "why"; don't be satisfied with only knowing the "how". Catherine Pulsifer

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." Bernard M. Baruch

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." Charles Steinmetz

"A prudent question is one-half wisdom." Francis Bacon

"People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions." John Lennon

"You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers." John J. Plomp

"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions." Susanne K. Langer

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself." Lloyd Alexander

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

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
Anthony Robbins

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." Charles Steinmetz

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Decouvertes

"To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom." German Proverb

"If you don't ask "why this?" often enough, somebody will ask "why you?" Tom Hirshfield

"No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious." George Bernard Shaw

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

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

"We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?" John McLeod, from It's The Journey That's Important

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?" Jim Rohn

"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." >Bishop Creighton

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

"My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones." Yanni