„I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question“
George Bush4
Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten 2000 bis 2009 1946Ähnliche Zitate
„I hate it when you answer a question with a question."
"No you don't, you think it's charming.“
— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Bones
Quelle: City of Bones
— Theodore Sturgeon, buch Venus Plus X
Quelle: Venus Plus X (1960), Section 13 (p. 40)
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Quando si è bimbi si fanno tante domande pretendendo altrettante risposte. Quando si è adulti si evitano molte domande, per evitare inutili risposte.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, buch Green Mars
Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 401)
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
„I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.“
— Julie Anne Peters American writer 1952
Quelle: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
— Avram Davidson, buch Masters of the Maze
Quelle: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 7 (p. 100)
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
1940s, Philosophy for Laymen (1946)
Kontext: There are a number of purely theoretical questions, of perennial and passionate interest, which science is unable to answer, at any rate at present. Do we survive death in any sense, and if so, do we survive for a time or for ever? Can mind dominate matter, or does matter completely dominate mind, or has each, perhaps, a certain limited independence? Has the universe a purpose? Or is it driven by blind necessity? Or is it a mere chaos and jumble, in which the natural laws that we think we find are only a phantasy generated by our own love of order? If there is a cosmic scheme, has life more importance in it than astronomy would lead us to suppose, or is our emphasis upon life mere parochialism and self-importance? I do not know the answer to these questions, and I do not believe that anybody else does, but I think human life would be impoverished if they were forgotten, or if definite answers were accepted without adequate evidence. To keep alive the interest in such questions, and to scrutinize suggested answers, is one of the functions of philosophy.
„I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer“
— Douglas Adams English writer and humorist 1952 - 2001
„If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.“
— Yogi Berra American baseball player, manager, coach 1925 - 2015
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
Yogiisms
„The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.“
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Quelle: Artemis Fowl
— Albert Messiah French physicist 1921 - 2013
Il y avait un nombre important de questions que je m'étais posées et, comme vous le savez, lorsqu'on se pose vraiment les questions, on donne de meilleures réponses que si l'on se contente de lire les réponses convenues.
explaining how he came to write his textbook on quantum mechanics, in Descente au coeur de la matière, an interview edited by [Stéphane Deligeorges, Le monde quantique, Editions du Seuil, Sciences et Avenir, 1984, 2020089084, 111]
„Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.“
— William S. Burroughs American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer 1914 - 1997
