Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

One reads in order to ask questions

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

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?

To philosophize is to doubt.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

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.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

The question is just as important as the answer.

A Socrates in every classroom.

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.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

I am completely Socratic.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.