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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Levi-Strauss

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?

Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
― Anne Frank

“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.”
― Leo Babauta

“He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me. ”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer

“Questions that will free you might have answers that will imprison you again.”
― Nema Al-Araby

“It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.”
― Dan Stevens

“Questions are infinitely superior to answers.”
― Dan Sullivan

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori