I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe. That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the people who question things are considered black sheep and ...
There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other peo...
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and...
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the ques...
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is ...
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioni...
There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calcul...
If a man makes soup of his tears, ask him not for broth.
Ask me what are my virtues, not about the color of my skin.
Let the man who has suffered ask it -- not the man who has travelled.
If you don't want to be cheated, ask the price at three shops.
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life.
Give a blind man eyes and he will ask for eyebrows.
Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.
When the sculptor is dead his statues ask him for a soul.
Only a fool asks, "What do you want with my wife?"
Ask for too much in order to get enough.
