You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

— Naguib Mahfouz

An answer is always a form of death.                          —John Fowles

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

—John W. Gardner

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.   —Arthur C. Clarke

If you don’t like the question that’s asked, answer some other question.            —Howard Baker

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

—Edmund Burke

It is better to know some of the questions rather than to know all the answers.                —James Thurber

The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool.            —Frank A Garbutt

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.   —Bernard M. Baruch

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

—Susan Sontag

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.    —Ursula K. LeGuin

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.             —Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.  —Antony Jay

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

—Lloyd Alexander