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“There are all kinds of ignorance that are insidious.
Most involve not asking the right questions,
or not questioning the assumptions in the questions themselves.

We can do better.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Some questions are shaped like slow elevators, and they deserve words that fill spaces like notes from a brass saxophone. Sometimes the silence of body language is music for my eyes.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“Deberíamos nacer con un folleto de instrucciones debajo del brazo, ¿eh? Así sería todo más fácil. Nunca he entendido eso de que 'vivir es fácil', por cierto. ¿En qué sentido? A mí me parece complejo. Las decisiones, las emociones. Y esas preguntas que todos nos hacemos una vez en la vida... '¿Quién soy? ¿De dónde vengo? ¿Qué hago aquí? ¿Por qué estoy en este mundo?”
― Alice Kellen, Nosotros en la Luna

“Do you have questions like that for your father?'

'Why am I the way I am?' His tone makes it clear he's proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. 'There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.'

'That's an answer,' I say.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I'm not the biggest fan of confrontation. I ask a lot of questions. Just not out loud.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“We'll begin with your name, shall we? Just what might that be, cully?"
"Jake Chambers." With his nose pinched shut, his voice sounded nasal and foggy.
"And are you a Not-see, Jake Chambers?"
For a moment, Jake wondered if this was a peculiar way of asking him if he was blind...but of course they could all see he wasn't. "I don't understand what--"
Tick-Tock shook him back and forth by the nose. "Not-See! Not-See! You just want to stop playing with me, boy!"
"I don't understand--" Jake began, and then he looked at the old machine-gun hanging from the chair and thought once more of the crashed Focke-Wulf. The pieces fell together in his mind. "No--I'm not a Nazi. I'm an American. All that ended long before I was born!"
The Tick-Tock Man released his hold on Jake's nose, which immediately began to gush blood. "You could have told me that in the first place and saved yourself all sorts of pain, Jake Chambers...but at least now you understand how we do things around here, don't you?"
Jake nodded.
"Ar. Well enough! We'll start with the simple questions."
Jake's eyes drifted back to the ventilator grille. What he had seen before was still there; it hadn't been just his imagination. Two gold-ringed eyes floated in the dark behind the chrome louvers.
Oy.
Tick-Tock slapped his face, knocking him back into Gasher, who immediately pushed him forward again. "It's school-time, dear heart," Gasher whispered. "Mind yer lessons, now! Mind em wery sharp!"
"Look at me when I'm talking to you," Tick-Tock said. "I'll have some respect, Jake Chambers, or I'll have your balls."
"All right."
Tick-Tock's green eyes gleamed dangerously. "All right what?"
Jake groped for the right answer, pushing away the tangle of questions and the sudden hope which had dawned in his mind. And what came was what would have served at his own Cradle of the Pubes...otherwise known as The Piper School. "All right, sir?"
Tick-Tock smiled. "That's a start, boy," he said, and leaned forward, forearms on his thighs. "Now...what's an American?”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“Ignorance is a temporary affliction remedied only by asking the right questions.”
― Colin Wright, Act Accordingly

“Question asking is the most important intellectual tool we have.”
― Neil Postman

“Every moment of your life represents a new chapter. Do not consider the chapter to be the full story. You do not know how your story will end. In fact, it's not the end that matters, but the chapters you choose to experience. Every new chapter asks you different questions, and nobody experiences the same questions inside the same chapter. Thus nobody can tell you how your next chapter will be. That which you see belongs to you only.”
― Dan Desmarques

“I think nearly all people on this planet - both creators of knowledge and followers â€� are just and only rationalists. What is a rationalist? It's fundamentally an insane person that knows well how to explain himself out of his insanity. These are the people who can explain everything but know nothing. And the more I know, the more this issue becomes extremely obvious to me. A rationalist is in essence a psychotic, and the world is filled with them because this is a prison planet for crazy souls. The ancient ones used the words illusion and illusion-attachment, which sound very poetic and beautiful but literally mean insane. Now the question is, how can the rationalists (the insane of this planet) see their way out when all they can do is rationalize? That's the big question, that leads many in my direction. In all these many thousands of years, people have done nothing more than think and rethink, trying to find a way out of the brain through the brain. Everyone is still doing it, although science has definitely pointed in many valuable directions. Yet ironically most scientists are atheists. But that's the fundamental purpose of all this: the liberation of the soul. For most people it is still a very complex topic, or not even real. Most people don't really want to be free, they just want more money, more popularity and more "stuff". They don't value freedom. It's not easy to explain it either. I have tried many times. In fact, the opposite typically happens, as I have no idea of what people seek in me with their questions apart from confusion. If you ask the wrong questions, you will always depart further from the answers you need the most.”
― Dan Desmarques

“«To find the right answer, we need to find the right question».”
― Meraki P. Lyhne, Historic Ember

“Do people really like the way they’re fucked? he thought. Do wives like their husband’s faces? Does my weak vocabulary annoy these intelligent CEOs? How long can I speak until I bother someone? They will all smile and shake your hand, but I am afraid I am just another omelet missing the ingredient they want. I am the wrong piano key fiercely played by a pianist’s regretful pinky finger in a concert hall blaring false to the audience’s disturbed ears that certainly caught the note but whose controlled heads do not dare betray their feigned enjoyment.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“We always hold apprehensions..
of asking valid questions,
of knowing some truthful answers
and understanding the consequences.

The human nature and its vulnerability..
its disquiet and composure are always symbiotic.
Eventually, we end up deciding,
to remain in our convenience zone.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Do not assume, ask.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you could invent something, what would it be?”
― Shia Kuren, 888 Questions for Couples: Questions of the heart for the heart.

“Is it possible the earth is alive and thinks and feels?”
― Shia Kuren, 888 Questions for Couples: Questions of the heart for the heart.

“What inspires you?”
― Shia Kuren, 888 Questions for Couples: Questions of the heart for the heart.

“I experienced a kind of liberation by learning how to frame questions.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“The messy, open-ended nature of inquiry is disorienting, and asking better questions obliges us to move away from an obsession with finding a single, clear solution toward falling in love with problems and the process.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“If we don’t get good at framing new and different questions to understand why a competitor or someone younger than us, or someone from a completely different culture does thing a certain way, then we are working at a disadvantage.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“You have to be thoughtful and intentional about how you frame a question in order to obtain the most insight from a person.”
― Natalie Nixon, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

“Maybe it’s only a mind game â€� what we hear more of, we think more of.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“The empty, futile, transitory nature of everything in life got her thinking: what had lasting value? Did love? Did family? Did the universe? Did time?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“Maybe it wasn't about the number; maybe it was about the symbol. Infinity. Maybe because there were infinite questions to ask, maybe because wonder was limitless. There were so many variables so many unknowns.”
― Rachel Harrison

“Oh, that is nice, dear,â€� she said, beaming not only with lips but also with her eyes, “We often see reality in dreams, where we hardly see the purpose in reality.â€�

“Doesn’t it depend on the way we perceive reality?� said the boy

“But before that, you must know if it is your reality�

“Do we all have the same reality?

“The question is, why don’t we?â€� she said looking into the boy’s eyes.”
― Rao Umar Javed, Distorted Denouement

“The quest for knowledge in science is a never-ending journey, where every answer births new questions.”
― Aloo Denish

“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“When answering life's big questions, it doesn’t even matter what you say your answers are; what matters is what you do.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“If nobody liked him, did that mean he was bad?”
― Samantha Childs, Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love

“Each human ape, since we climbed down out of the trees, is on a lifelong quest (or by default, a journey) to answer 3 questions: 1. Who am I? 2. What is the world (and my relationship to it)? 3. What do I do now (or what will I do—with myself, my life, this knowledge, etc)? â€�”
― Asher Black, The Guitar Decoder Ring: Featuring SIGIL - the New Language of Guitar