I still can't watch the funeral. However, they appear in all my scripts and films, because the question of life and death affected my consciousness when I was still a child and left a mark on all my works.
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
The Russian democrat ends where the Ukrainian question begins.
“I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.”
“Everything is in a constant state of change, and the wise investor recognizes that success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.”
— Sir John Templeton
“I try to get rid of people who confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.”
— Charlie Munger
Questions aren’t solved in arguments but in investigations within yourself, when you challenge yourself with all your might.
—Leo Tolstoy
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
—Voltaire
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
—Charles Dickens
To be or not to be, that is the question.
—William Shakespeare
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not ‘one thing in my life’ – not even the most important – because my life no longer belongs to me because…you are always me.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
—Albert Einstein
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
—Plato
Understanding a question is half an answer.
—Socrates
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
—Immanuel Kant
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
—Charlie Chaplin
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
—Henry David Thoreau
A theologian who is acquainted with all the latest issues of his science but who stands speechless at a sickbed and knows no answer to the questions of the lost sinner’s heart isn’t worthy of his title and office.
—Herman Bavinck
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
—Marcus Aurelius
It is not a question of what we feel, but of what God says. God’s Word is always to be believed. Our own feelings are oftentimes to be doubted.
—R. A. Torrey
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
—Voltaire
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
—Voltaire
He who listens attentively, questions rationally, answers calmly and stops talking when he has nothing more to say is in command of the qualities that are most needed in life. Johann Lavater
—Leo Tolstoy
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
—John Locke
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
—John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
—John Locke