Questions Proverbs

Sayings about Questions

One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb

Indiscreet 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