Questions And Answers Quotations

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."

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.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.