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Questions Quotes

Sometimes the question matters more than the answer.

One recurring idea here is that questions reveal more about a person than their answers do, and that certain periods in life exist only to raise questions rather than settle them. See Ask quotes for more on the act of asking.

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand...

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

Quotes by Adeel Akhtar

I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.

Quotes by Ada Yonath

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

Quotes by Ada Lovelace

About Quotes

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Quotes by Ada Yonath

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

Quotes by Aaron Stanford

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Quotes by A. R. Ammons

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Always Quotes

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions...

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

Quotes by Yair Lapid

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

Ask Quotes

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

Quotes by William Shatner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

Quotes by William Lashner

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party...

Quotes by Wilfrid Laurier

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

Quotes by Walter Martin

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Quotes by W. Edwards Deming

Know Quotes

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of "Questions" quotes are on this page?
Reflective ones about the value and nature of asking — why questions matter, what they reveal about a person, and how they relate to knowledge and time.
Is there a quote about judging someone by their questions rather than answers?
Yes: "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." The idea is that what someone asks reveals more about their curiosity and values than what they claim to know.
What does the "years" quote mean?
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer" suggests that life moves in phases — some periods raise more uncertainty, others bring resolution or clarity.
Is there a religious reference in this collection?
One quote mentions researching material "from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine," describing a real research process rather than making a doctrinal claim itself.
Do these quotes suggest you need knowledge before asking questions?
One takes that position directly: "You should not ask questions without knowledge." It's presented as the speaker's own view on how to approach inquiry thoughtfully. See Know quotes for more on that theme.

Other lines caution against asking without first building real knowledge — a nod to research and study as groundwork for good questions. Check About quotes and Know quotes for related reading.