57 Question Quotes

Whether you're a writer seeking inspiration, a speaker in search of the perfect opening, or simply someone who loves the art of inquiry, this curated collection of the top 57 question quotes is bound to spark your curiosity. Questions have the power to provoke thought, challenge assumptions, and open up new avenues of understanding. In this blog post, we’ve gathered the most intriguing, profound, and thought-provoking quotes that celebrate the importance of asking the right questions. Let's dive in and explore these timeless words that remind us of the endless potential in a simple query.

1. “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” - Albert Einstein

2. “Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.” - Douglas Adams

3. “I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.” - Yogi Berra

4. “The starting point is a question.” - Alberto Manguel

5. “[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.” - Thomas Huxley

6. “Os livros são escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que não nos libertam até serem escritas e, até mesmo então, a escrita é o último recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.” - Richard Bach

7. “For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?” - Vera Nazarian

8. “If you can't tolerate the truth, never ask me a question.” - Richard Diaz

9. “A little damage makes people more interesting, right?” - Catherine Hapka

10. “Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!?Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?” - Bill Watterson

11. “Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?” - Christy Leigh Stewart

12. “Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?” - Christy Leigh Stewart

13. “Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen” - May Swenson

14. “If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come'Lincolnesque' just means tall?” - Calvin Trillin

15. “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” - Euripides

16. “To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?” - Marvin Gaye

17. “What's my age again?” - Blink-182

18. “Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot?” - Steve Kluger

19. “The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.” - B.F. Skinner

20. “There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers.” - Toba Beta

21. “The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.” - Bill Hicks

22. “Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.” - Dan Abnett

23. “There are four categories of questions Emmily asks:1. Can I please go to the bathroom?2. Where is the bathroom?3. Is it okay if I raise my hand and ask a question?4. I don't understand anything you've said in the last thirty minutes. Could you explain it again? Also the last six weeks.” - Jim Benton

24. “When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).” - Rick Riordan

25. “The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.” - Toba Beta

26. “Pretend I asked, now answer the question...” - Laurell K. Hamilton

27. “For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.” - Richard Diaz

28. “I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.” - Hermann Hesse

29. “The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.” - Jodi Picoult

30. “Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.” - Vera Nazarian

31. “I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.” - Emmuska Orczy

32. “It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.Here is a quick test:If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.It will do both of you good.” - Vera Nazarian

33. “Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.” - Kristin Hannah

34. “What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?” - Laura Kelly

35. “Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?” - Roxana Jones

36. “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.” - James Joyce

37. “Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.” - Catherynne M. Valente

38. “A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.” - Paula Fox

39. “As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.” - Tahir Shah

40. “So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?""Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.” - Cinda Williams Chima

41. “This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.” - Neal Stephenson

42. “You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?” - Neal Stephenson

43. “Tanrı ya da tabiat mutlak yola girmesini istediği yüz kişi için yüzbin kişi yarattı diye, doksan dokuz bin dokuz yüz kişiden birisi olarak yaşamak neden gerekli, soruyorum?” - Oğuz Atay

44. “The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

45. “It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?” - Neal Shusterman

46. “Ask a burning question, get a burning answer” - Lynda Barry

47. “It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.” - Ayn Rand

48. “There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky

49. “Life is not a true or false question.” - Rebecca McKinsey

50. “The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?” - Tony DiTerlizzi

51. “It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.” - Michael Haneke

52. “There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.” - Dejan Stojanovic

53. “Sarcasm is one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions!” - Habeeb Akande

54. “One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.” - Christiana Miller

55. “...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?” - Neal Shusterman

56. “My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If ever I cursed my black old motherAnd wished she were in hell,I'm sorry for that evil wishAnd now i wish her wellMy old man died in a fine big houseMy Ma died in a shack.I wonder were i'm going to die,Being neither white nor black?” - Langston Hughes

57. “He believed he was in love with her, if he knew what love was.” - Tim LaHaye