“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

“Love is the answer to a question I have forgotten, but I know I've been asked. And the answer has got to be love.”

Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“God is not running the world. (…) All happens by itself. You are asking the question and you are supplying the answer. And you know the answer when you ask the question. All is play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”

George Packer (1960) American journalist and writer

“Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“The first one has to do with whether a man knows what he is talking about, whether what he says has some basis or not. And my trick that I use is very easy. If you ask him intelligent questions — that is, penetrating, interested, honest, frank, direct questions on the subject, and no trick questions — then he quickly gets stuck. It is like a child asking naive questions. If you ask naive but relevant questions, then almost immediately the person doesn't know the answer, if he is an honest man.”

Richard Feynman book The Meaning of It All