A Quote by Voltaire

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto

Veronica Roth

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Eric Hoffer

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Robert Engman

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

Austin Kleon

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

Colman Domingo

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

Andre Gide

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

Bill Ayers

Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.

Joseph de Maistre

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Amin Maalouf

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

Thomas Merton

But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

Neil Postman

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Marcia Wallace

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

George Wald

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.