Questioning Quotes

"Never let fear stop you from asking something you don't understand or know. To pretend or to act as if you know is not a wise thing to do."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." Claude Levi-Strauss

"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



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"The important thing
is never to
stop questioning."

Albert Einstein




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"The fool wonders,
the wise man asks."

Benjamin Disraeli

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