Quotes by Asking Questions We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. Abraham Joshua Heschel asking-questions asking thinking Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead. Alan Lightman asking-questions journey thinking I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books. Alex Haley asking-questions college book I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? Allen Ginsberg asking-questions pork angel I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to. Ann Aguirre asking-questions sick answers Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions. Anne Frank asking-questions asking I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. Anne Rice asking-questions literature asking Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. Anthony Kennedy asking-questions police ordinary Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out. Arnold Wesker asking-questions country book I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions. Ashley Greene asking-questions mom thinking You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. Athol Fugard asking-questions judging heart The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions. Aubrey Malphurs asking-questions unique leader You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified. Barbara Kingsolver asking-questions land ideas I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent. Benoit Mandelbrot asking-questions drawing hands Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life. Bertrand Russell asking-questions philosophy lying I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. Bill James asking-questions knowing answers I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't. Bill Mollison asking-questions people thinking The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions. Bing Gordon asking-questions first-time firsts Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling. Brian Tracy selling asking-questions asking I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer. Carl Reiner asking-questions answers people 1234567»