Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

What I do for a living is ask questions.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

Language was invented to ask questions.

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

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

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

Questions outlive the answers.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.