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Life is full of questions worth asking …

• Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. Tennessee Williams
• Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it. J.D. Stroube, Caged by Damnation
• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell
• To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there’s a tough essay question. Robert Brault
• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? Frank Moore Colby
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… and to stop asking questions is akin to death

• When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. Lillian Smith
• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? Frank Moore Colby
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Asking questions is quintessentially human

• Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions. Eric Hoffer
• 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

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The questions we ask ourselves shape the quality of our lives…

• The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask. John Demartini
• What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. Sam Keen
• Great minds ask great questions. The questions that ‘engage our thought’ on a daily basis reflect our life purpose and influence the quality of our lives. By cultivating a Da Vinci-like open, questing frame of mind, we broaden our universe and improve our ability to travel through it. Michael Gelb
• Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Tony Robbins
• Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. Tony Robbins

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Our questions define who we are

• At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become. Leo Babauta
• I define myself more by my questions than by my answers. Elie Wiesel
• The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. David Whyte

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Questions are portals of discovery

• All human progress is preceded by new questions. Tony Robbins
• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. Edwards Deming
• Millions say the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why. Bernard M. Baruch
• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker
• Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. Clarence Birdseye
• The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask questions and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. Sylvia Earle
• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. Jonas Salk
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Questions often lead to answers

• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. John Ruskin
• If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. Robert Brault
• Questions create answers – even where they seemingly do not exist. Tony Robbins

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Asking the right questions leads to wisdom and intelligence

• The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. John Simone
• Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. Frank Kingdon
• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon
• A wise man’s question contains half the answer. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
• ‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. John Abbott
• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question. Johann Wolfgang von Goetheugnorance
• The key to wisdom is this constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.   Peter Abelard
• The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own. Leo Stein
• We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell. James Stephensa
• No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Charles Steinmetz
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Asking the right questions leads to knowledge …

• If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. Susanne K. Langer
• The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice
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… and cures ignorance

• Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. Proverb
• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. Voltaire
• Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli
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Asking the right questions leads to insight and enlightenment

• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco    
• The enlightenment is not in the answer but in the question. Socrates
• We gain all genuine insight from questions and experiments. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions. Antony Jay
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Questions are at the heart of learning …

• Asking good questions is half of learning. Muhammad
• Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. Proverb
• Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. Edward Cocker
• Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. Euripedes
• The most successful people are lifelong learners; they constantly ask questions and never cease to explore the wonder- filled world around them. Regardless of where you are in life—whether you are fifteen or a hundred and fifteen, whether you are going through a rough patch or are thriving—create an education program for yourself. Tal Ben- Shahar
• Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander
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… and effective teaching

• I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. Thabo Mbeki
• In school, we’re rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. Richard Saul Wurman
• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski
• My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. Alice Wellington Rollins
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Asking the right questions are at the heart of success

• Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Tony Robbins
• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen
• A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wisdom is having the courage to ask foolish questions

• Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. Clarence Birdseye
• One of life’s best lessons is not being afraid to look foolish — to just ask the question. Melissa Senate
• There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. Charles Steinmetz
• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
• He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
• Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. Proverb

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Questions are an excellent problem-solving device

• To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there? Jim Rohn
• To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask? Jim Rohn
• To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. Jo Coudert  
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More rewards of questions

• Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. Earl Gray Stevens
• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. Francis Bacon

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Asking questions is the natural result of curiosity

• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein
• Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. Clarence Birdseye
• Child: An island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks.
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Asking questions is at the heart of science

• That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. Jacob Bronowski
• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss
• The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask questions and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five-year-old. Sylvia Earle
• We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. Paulo Coelho
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Asking questions is at the heart of the spiritual quest …

• Exploration is innate to mankind, and its highest levels lead to spiritual inquiry. This brings up the questions of who am I, what am I, where did I come from, what is the origin and destiny of the self, and who and where is God. David R. Hawkins
• Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Paul Tillich
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… questions for which there is no definitive answer …

• Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanour. Sigmund Freud.  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
• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. Max Planck

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… especially the question “Who Am I?”

• We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. Paulo Coelho
• The question ‘Who am I?’ is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life. Neale Donald Walsch
• “Who am I?” is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. Deepak Chopra
• The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I? Adyashanti
• I am not my body, I am not my mind, I am not my emotions Who then, am I? Vedic Question

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Have the courage to ask questions

• Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. Shannon L. Alder
• We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Carl Sagan
• The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. Ruby Dee
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Elevate your life by asking empowering questions

• For any question you pose, your brain provides an answer. Always make questions positive, actionable and constructive. Questions are lasers of human consciousness. Their power can cut through any obstacle. Ask empowering questions that will increase the quality of your life and uplift your spirit. Tony Robbins
• Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What’s good about this? What’s not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it? Charles Connolly
• If we want to reach enlightenment, we’ve got to get rid of the “Why?” and start asking better questions. “How?” and “What?” questions? They tap into a much more expansive part of our brains and open up a vast amount of creativity and new neural connections. Gay & Katie Hendricks
• Let’s fan those flames in your heart with colossal and microscopic questions. Danielle LaPorte

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Question everything

• Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Ernest Gaines
• The most important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

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Question what you take for granted …

• Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson
• Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” Shannon L. Alder
• In all my affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell
• No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. George Bernard Shaw

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… especially your assumptions

• The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don’t understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are as clear as you can be. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. Alan Alda
• If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfil our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions. Don Miguel Ruiz
• I welcome questions. I hate assumptions. Red Haircrow
• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W. Gardner
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Question beliefs that limit you

• Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Primo Levi
• Dare to question old ways, rules and taken for granted beliefs. Dr Irene C. Kassorla
• There is only one cause of unhappiness; the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. Anthony de Mello
• Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. Rupert Spira
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Often the questions we ask are more important than the answers…

• Sometimes questions are more important than answers. Nancy Willard
• Good questions outrank easy answers. Paul A. Samuelson
• Stop looking all over the place for “the answers” – whatever they are – and start looking for the questions – the inquiries which are most important in your life, and give them answers. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it. Neale Donald Walsch
• Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire
• Ask lots of questions. The greatest ‘adventure’ is the ability to inquire, to ask questions. Sometimes in the process of inquiry, the search is more significant than the answers. The simple act of asking the right questions is the answer.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• The art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. Georg Cantor
• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settling a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert
• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander

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…for what use is the right answer to the wrong question?

• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. Antony Jay
• It is much harder to ask the right question than to find the right answer to the wrong question. E.H.Morison
• By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions. K. LeVick
• Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers. Vanessa Redgrave
• Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. Robert Half
• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. Thomas Pynchon
• If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. Edward Hodnett
• There are no right answers to wrong questions. Ursula K. Le Guin
• To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. Tobin Webster
• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. Bono

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Rest in the question without the need for a quick and easy answers

• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. Frank Moore Colby
• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. John Ciardi
• 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
• You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. Richard Bach
• He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. Elie Wiesel, Night
• To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin

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The answers to all your questions lie within you

• The answer to every vital question is within you. Eckhart Tolle
• The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look listen and trust. Cherie Carter- Scott
• Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs
• To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. Joe Cordare
• When you ask the question, the answer’s there. Start listening for the answer. Abraham-Hicks
• You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you. Sathya Sai Baba
• Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence. Byron Katie
• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu
• Seek always for the answers within. Be not influenced by those around you – by their thoughts or their words. Eileen Caddy
• So next time you pray for something do it with the knowledge that the answers lie within. Micheal Teal
• Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them. Debbie Ford
• God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within. Macrina Wiederkehr
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• Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. “Yes” is the answer.
• A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know. Mistinguett
• A politician is a man who approaches every question with an open mouth. George Canning
• A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams
• A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Albert Einstein
• Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions – because they know all the answers. Evan Esar
• Adolescence: A period in which children begin to question the answers.
• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old boy.  Carl Van Vechten
• Cake: The answer, no matter the question.
• Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs. Oliver Goldsmith
• Charm: A way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.  Albert Camus
• Child: An island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks.
• Civilization: A process whereby one generation finds the questions to the previous generation’s answers.
• Educated Man: One who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answers.
• Gentlemen I have nothing to say. Any questions?  Phil Watson
• I called my lawyer and said…Can I ask you two questions?’ He said…What’s the second question?  Finagle’s Rule
• I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. Woody Allen
• I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
• I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.  …Yogi’ Berra
• If chocolate is the answer, the question is irrelevant.
• When someone says, That’s a good question. You can be sure it’s a lot better than the answer you’re going to get.
• If love is the answer could you rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin
• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?  Scott Adams
• Just when I thought I knew all the answers, life started asking all the wrong questions.
• Love is the answer but while you’re waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.  Woody Allen
• Old age is when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.   Laurence J. Peter
• Psychiatrist: A fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.   Adams Joey
• Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question.  “Yes” is the answer.  Swami X
• The great question which I have not been able to answer is …What does woman want?’  Sigmund Freud
• The young and the old have all the answers. Those in between are stuck with the questions.  Herbert V. Prochnow
• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.  Oscar Levant
• To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there’s a tough essay question. Robert Brault
• What if there were no hypothetical questions?  George Carlin
• When you die if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all I think a good way to get out of it is just to say…No speaka English. Jack Handey
• Where would we be without rhetorical questions?

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