Questions Proverbs
Sayings about Questions
One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish ProverbIndiscreet questions must be answered with a lie. ~ Spanish Proverb
Ask no questions and hear no lies. ~ Traditional Proverb
Hasty questions require slow answers. ~ Dutch Proverb
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer. ~ Saying
Every question has an answer. ~ Yiddish Proverb
One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer. ~ Mongolian Proverb
Don't ask questions about fairy tales. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Conversation is like making love; the man is the question, the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit. ~ Arabian Proverb
The wise man asks questions of himself; the fool questions others. ~ Chinese Proverb
He, who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
To a quick question give a slow answer. ~ Italian Proverb
A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. ~ English Proverb
If you ask questions, you cannot avoid answers. ~ Cameroon Proverb
To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom. ~ German Proverb
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who asks no questions stays a fool forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question. ~ Chinese Proverb
The real scholar is not afraid to ask questions of his pupil. ~ Chinese Proverb
No one is without knowledge except he who asks no questions. ~ African Proverb
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Questions
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. ~ Justice Felix Frankfurter
Turn your doubts to question; turn your question to prayers; turn your prayers to God. ~ Mark R. Litteton
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 Arthur William Russell
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask. ~ Samantha Bee
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ~ Rainer Marie Rilke
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ~ Francis Bacon
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ~ Johnny Depp
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. ~ Franz Kafka
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. ~ Oscar Wilde
Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety. ~ Joseph Joubert
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. ~ Thomas Pynchon
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. ~ Albert Einstein
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. ~ Og Mandino
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ~ Adolf Berle
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ James Thurber
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ~ Francis Bacon
Every clarification breeds new questions. ~ Arthur Bloch
Be ever questioning. ~ Hyman Rickover
When great questions end, little parties begin. ~ Walter Bagehot
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. ~ Aristotle
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ~ Lillian Smith
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. ~ Kiana Tom
Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile. ~ Confucius
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. ~ George Santayana
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. ~ Susanne Langer
Quality questions create a quality life. ~ Anthony Robbins
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~ Edgar Cayce
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ~ Mary Astor
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ~ Oscar Wilde
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. ~ Vicente Aleixandre
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions. ~ Bruce Nauman
A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: "By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant." ~ John Abbott
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. ~ Tom Robbins
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? ~ James Allen
By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. ~ Charles Steinmetz
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. ~ John Ruskin
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. ~ Lou Holtz
It is not every question that deserves an answer. ~ Syrus
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. ~ Frank Garbutt
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. ~ B. Traven
I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer. ~ Donald Rumsfeld
You shod not ask questions without knowledge. ~ W. Edwards Deming
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ~ George Bernard Shaw
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ~ George Eliot
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ~ Francis Bacon
Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. ~ Anthony Robbins
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ~ Samuel Johnson