72 quotes found
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”
“The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.”
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
“Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.”
“Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don't have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don't understand, then I don't have the time ...”
“Any historian knows...that possibilities and history are connected. It's not simply our hard work, but that we lived in circumstances in which prosperity wasn't taken away. For most people, for mos...”
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
“My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?”
“Three questions,” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?”
“Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking...”
“what would the masters do?when people arn’t successful, they sometimes wonder, why not? they get answers, then they wonder why those answers don’t seem to meet their needs. they get the wrong answe...”
