Humility and silence are beautiful graces in young people. Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years; when He was found in the temple, He was “sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

I remember washing Robbie Keane’s boots and asking him a few questions. It’s stuff you remember as a kid. You take that on and make sure you’re a bit more hungry to go on and do what they’ve achieved.

Life is a debatable subject, and Wells too pondered on this very question, providing us with many quotes for us to think over.

Finally anger took possession of him. It was his turn to ask the question already raised by so many others: We, down there, the ones who join up, we’re giving everything we have to give, maybe our arms and our two legs. He looked up at the high grills, the curving driveways, the sumptuous facades, and completed his thought: Are these people giving all they have to give?

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don’t understand her accent – I will go hungry for the entire flight.

If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

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.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

There’s a spirit that grabs me, and it’s in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference so long as it’s the Marine breed.

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.

I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true, and I would ask questions about them and talk about them.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown… The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Trust yourself dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?”

There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster’; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.