Questions Quotes
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
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Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?
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The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.
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It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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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.
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[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.
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Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
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The dilemma in U.S. culture is that we don’t really distinguish what I am defining as Humble Inquiry carefully enough from leading questions, rhetorical questions, embarrassing questions, or statements in the form of questions—such as journalists seem to love— which are deliberately provocative and intended to put you down.
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The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.
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Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Humble Inquiry is the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.
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A good piece of art raises questions.
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Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know. It’s got all the best questions, though.
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Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
