The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.