Quotes about Asking Questions

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. Votes: 5

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. Votes: 4

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. Votes: 4

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Votes: 4

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. Votes: 4

Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being. Votes: 4

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. Votes: 4

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. Votes: 3

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Votes: 3

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers. Votes: 3

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture. Votes: 3

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. Votes: 3

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. Votes: 3

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. Votes: 3

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. Votes: 3

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. Votes: 3

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say. Votes: 3

Just keep asking questions. Does this job allow me to be myself? Does it make me smarter? Does it open doors? Does it represent a compromise I accept? Does it touch my inner being? Votes: 3

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question. Votes: 3

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. Votes: 3

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life. Votes: 3

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding. Votes: 3

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change. Votes: 3

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers. Votes: 1

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Votes: 1

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. Votes: 1

I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix. Votes: 1

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. Votes: 1

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. Votes: 1

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. Votes: 1

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. Votes: 1

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions. Votes: 1

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me. Votes: 1

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. Votes: 1

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember. Votes: 1

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. Votes: 1

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other. Votes: 1

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. Votes: 1

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. Votes: 1

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling. Votes: 1

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony. Votes: 1

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. Votes: 1

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. Votes: 1

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. Votes: 1

As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't. Votes: 1

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? Votes: 1

Asking good questions is half of learning. Votes: 0

When I stop asking questions, something's wrong. Votes: 0

Half of science is asking the right questions. Votes: 0

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions? Votes: 0

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Votes: 0

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling. Votes: 0

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists. Votes: 0

Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them. Votes: 0

Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions. Votes: 0

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them Votes: 0

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions? Votes: 0

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions. Votes: 0

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions. Votes: 0

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions. Votes: 0

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. Votes: 0

Communicating is about asking good questions and engaging with each other. Votes: 0

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions. Votes: 0

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. Votes: 0

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. Votes: 0

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something. Votes: 0

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning. Votes: 0

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer. Votes: 0

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses. Votes: 0

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better. Votes: 0

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer. Votes: 0

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know. Votes: 0

If you dislike the answers you're getting from life, try asking better questions. Votes: 0

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions. Votes: 0

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. Votes: 0

Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. Votes: 0

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. Votes: 0

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to. Votes: 0

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers. Votes: 0

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. Votes: 0

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. Votes: 0

Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask. Votes: 0

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear. Votes: 0

Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions. Votes: 0

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. Votes: 0

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. Votes: 0

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking. Votes: 0

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions. Votes: 0

I'm good at asking other people questions, but I'm not really good at answering questions. Votes: 0

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me. Votes: 0

Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death. Votes: 0

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel. Votes: 0

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind. Votes: 0

Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions. Votes: 0

But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered. Votes: 0

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions? Votes: 0

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers. Votes: 0

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. Votes: 0

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. Votes: 0

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange. Votes: 0

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions. Votes: 0

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking. Votes: 0

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions. Votes: 0

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking. Votes: 0

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. Votes: 0

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions. Votes: 0

Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking. Votes: 0

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. Votes: 0

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We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having. Votes: 0

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers. Votes: 0

Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain! Votes: 0

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. Votes: 0

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. Votes: 0

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. Votes: 0

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? Votes: 0

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five. Votes: 0

Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does. Votes: 0

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done. Votes: 0

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. Votes: 0

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions. Votes: 0

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, "˜What's your alma mater?' I told him, "˜Books. Votes: 0

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job. Votes: 0

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. Votes: 0

I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions. Votes: 0

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers. Votes: 0

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over. Votes: 0

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself. Votes: 0

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office! Votes: 0

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer. Votes: 0

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found. Votes: 0

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery. Votes: 0

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Votes: 0

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. Votes: 0

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. Votes: 0

I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples. Votes: 0

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. Votes: 0

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you. Votes: 0

If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like? Votes: 0

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me. Votes: 0

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach, Votes: 0

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. Votes: 0

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got. Votes: 0

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers. Votes: 0

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions. Votes: 0

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already. Votes: 0

I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and asking questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit. Votes: 0

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on. Votes: 0

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new. Votes: 0

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around. Votes: 0

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions. Votes: 0

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel. Votes: 0

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?' Votes: 0

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. Votes: 0

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for. Votes: 0

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. Votes: 0

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent. Votes: 0

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer. Votes: 0

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again. Votes: 0

I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions. Votes: 0

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology. Votes: 0

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions. Votes: 0

Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that. Votes: 0

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities. Votes: 0

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions. Votes: 0

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions. Votes: 0

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they? Votes: 0

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? Votes: 0

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing. Votes: 0

We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today? Votes: 0

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking. Votes: 0

The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain. Votes: 0

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education. Votes: 0

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers. Votes: 0

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. Votes: 0

Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap." Votes: 0

I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it. Votes: 0

She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning. Votes: 0

I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't. Votes: 0

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. Votes: 0

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers. Votes: 0

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. Votes: 0

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview. Votes: 0

If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community. Votes: 0

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive. Votes: 0

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. Votes: 0

What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately. Votes: 0

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Votes: 0

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions. Votes: 0

At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product. Votes: 0

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. Votes: 0

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting. Votes: 0

Asking questions is not a matter of weakness or of being uninformed. In fact, people who ask a lot of questions tend to achieve more and learn more than those who do not. Votes: 0

Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things. Votes: 0

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will. Votes: 0

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience. Votes: 0

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power. Votes: 0

I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect. Votes: 0

It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry. Votes: 0

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story. Votes: 0

The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions. Votes: 0

Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it. Votes: 0