Harry S Truman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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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.
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I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
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Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
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Well, we are. I'd like to know when you're going to answer the questions?
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.
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The resulting weird system must have so puzzled my examiners that they couldn't or wouldn't ask any telling questions at my oral defense.
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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
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Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
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I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
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I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.
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Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
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Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.
