Famous Question Quotes in English with Images

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find our something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.

I never have found the perfect quote.  At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning or destroyed it altogether.

- Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently.  The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

- Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason 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 merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.  Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein Quotes

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the mighty force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. We must be quick to break those old habits that break us and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that will help us achieve the success we desire.

- J. Paul Getty

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing not and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

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Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?.

- Charles Connolly

There are two sides to every question.

- Protagoras Quotes

There are two sides to every question.

- Protagoras Quote

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

A wise man’s question contains half the answer.

So many men so many questions.
(Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

The point of questions is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.

The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

- Ambrose Bierce Quotes

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple.  Take it and copy it.

Be careful – with questions, you can damn anything.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by question.

To be amused by what you read – that is great spring of happy quotations.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best and therefore never scrutinize or question.

I improve on misquotation.

- Cary Grant Quotes

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

- Dan Quayle Quotes

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

- David H. Comins Quotes

What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it?

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound – if I can remember any of the damn things.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think  they grow immortal as they quote.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

- Edwin P. Whipple Quotes

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned.  A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Life itself is a quotation.

- Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman.  It speaks with authority.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote.  I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

A book of quotations… can never be complete.

- Robert M. Hamilton Quotes

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

- Samuel Johnson Quotes

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Famous remarks are very seldom quote correctly.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

A witty saying proves nothing.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two question grow where only one grew before.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

I didn’t really say everything I said.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.