The Question of Questions



"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -Albert Einstein

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?
|Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." -Francis Bacon

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." -Anthony Robbins

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -James Thurber

"No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions." -Charles Steinmetz

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." -Leo Tolstoy

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." -Thomas Paine

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked." -Voltaire


-originally posted October 2009

5 comments:

  1. that last quote somehow hit a nerve haha

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  2. I thought the same thing Rygel, just after watching some politician spew forth some more garbage.

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  3. I can't remember how many times I've been told, "The only stupid question is the one you don't ask." But who wants to chance being the first person to prove that adage is wrong!

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