If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

Quote by Stephen Potter

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Questioning Quotes

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I...

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I...

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful...

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful...

In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we...

In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we...

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is...

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is...

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must...

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must...

He who has a why can endure any how

He who has a why can endure any how

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule...

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule...

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is...

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is...

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle,...

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle,...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a...

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a...

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen...

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen...

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether...

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I...

When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I...

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If I stop to...

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If I stop to...