Quotes on questions

“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?”

“To be, or not to be: what a question!”

“Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.”

“Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?”

“The most profound truths are often found in the simplest of questions, yet the answers remain elusive until we dare to ask them.”

“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”

“We destroy in assumptionsBut we do not build in possibilities”

“Thousand people, thousand hearts, thousand opinions;One truth.”

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”

“Knowledge is akin to the Lernaean Hydra's heads, multiplying as soon as one head is severed. The more knowledge you attain, the more you find yourself searching for answers to new questions.”

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

In every question lies the potential for discovery and insight.

Metaphysics is the most significant aspect of philosophy, even if its questions remain unanswered.

It is the nature of a philosophical question that it cannot be answered in empirical terms.

The process of inquiry is endless; every answer leads to new questions.

Faith does not eliminate questions, but faith knows where to bring them.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Faith is not about the answers you find, but about the questions you ask.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The mind craves answers, but sometimes, it’s the questions that give life its meaning.

A writer’s job is to pose questions, not to answer them all.

Sometimes, finding answers just raises more questions.

I’ve always wondered, is forgiveness something you give, or is it something you take?

Faith is about accepting that there are many more questions than answers.

If you have a deep question in mind, you will eventually find answers, even if the question is incredibly difficult.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

The only thing that makes a philosopher a philosopher is the attempt to deal with philosophical questions, not the answers he gives.

In philosophy, questions are more important than answers.

The task of poetry is not to find the answers but to bring people to the questions.