Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
—Voltaire
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question.
—Susan Sontag
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
—Agatha Christie in The Moving Finger
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
—Desmond Morris
If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.
—Julia Quinn in With Love
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
—Charles Caleb Colton
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
—James Thurber
I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers.
—Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
—John J. Plomp
I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.
—Sarah Dessen in That Summer
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is "You've got to be kidding.
—Jimmy Carter
They want to hear that Buddhism is the answer to all of their problems, not a big fat arrow pointing to the source of all of their problems: ego.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
—Gertrude Stein