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In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
Sep 10, 2025
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
The Clinton machine is so closely and irrevocably tied to the media organizations that she is given the questions and answers in advance of her debate performance with Bernie Sanders.
I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.
In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.
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."
Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.
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.
The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my mind, the outstanding spin-off from space research is not new technology. The real bonus has been that for the first time in human history we have had a chance to look at the Earth from space, and the information gained from seeing from the outside our azure-green planet in all its global beauty has given rise to a whole new set of questions and answers.
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
Speaking of failure, when we do our question and answer period, you look at what's happened with our Navy in terms of the number of ships and our armed forces generally, how they're so depleted, how they're at almost record-setting lows and in some cases absolute record-setting lows. It is very, very unfortunate and very, very dangerous for our country.
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.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.
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.
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