"'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
'It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."
— Claude Lévi-Strauss

"Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #7))

"He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer."
— Elie Wiesel (Night)

"The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?

Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh,why are people so crazy?"
— Anne Frank

".... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and... try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.... Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

"He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.""
— Thomas H. Cook (Master of the Delta)

"An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become."
— Leo Babauta

"if running a red stop light is against the law, then shouldn't reading be a law?"
— Jane Griffin (me)

"There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers."
— Anne Bishop (Daughter of the Blood)

"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn."
— Katharine Graham

"Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?"
— Aidan Chambers (Postcards from No Man's Land)

"those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware."
— buddha

"You can ask questions, but you can't expect answers."
— Julius R. T. Kellinghusen

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
— Gene Roddenberry

"Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one thing
Only this one time, what would you tell me?
Well maybe you could give me a suggestion
So I could know you, what would you tell me?
Maybe you could tell me what to ask you
Because then I'd know you, what would you tell me
Please tell me that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
And what are your intentions, will you try?
Impressions, you've made impressions
They're going nowhere
They're just going to wait here if you let them
Please don't let them
I want to know you
And if they're going to haunt me
Please collect them
Please just collect them
And now I'm begging
I'm begging you to ask me just one question
One simple question
Because then you'd know me
I'll tell you that there's time
To make this work for all intents and purposes
At least for my own
What is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?
Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stone
Why must we always be untrue?"
— Jack Johnson (Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version)

"those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence."
— buddha

"...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge."
— David Brin (Kiln People)

"Patient is the key to solve all questions, but sometimes some circumstances patients can only hold for so long before it explodes."
— Sam Kao

"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

""Why does life have to be so confusing?""
— marisa

"But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me. "
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

"The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask."
— Nancy Wynne Newhall

"To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for its intended purpous. God is an artist. Artist do not create to have someone just glance and say "That is pretty." Artist want viewers to look closer, deeper--to really see what they have created--not just glance."
— Cristina Marrero

"With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers."
— Yisroel Meir Hakohen

"Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith."
— Charles Sheffield (Brother to Dragons)

"Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?"
— Aidan Chambers (Postcards from No Man's Land)

"rainerLive the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)