All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question. Peaky Blinders s3e3, BBC 2016
They still don’t get it. They don’t realise that there was some larger questions at issue. Dick Cavett’s Watergate, PBS 2014
We all have questions. Big questions. It’s part of what it means to be a human … Anyone can answer big questions for themselves. Genius with Stephen Hawking, National Geographic 2016
Why? That is the question people ask me most. The Walk 2015 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Charlotte Le Bo & Ben Kingsley & Clement Sibony & James Badge Dale & Cesar Domboy & Ben Schwartz Benedict Samuel & Steve Valentine at el, director Robert Zemeckis, opening monologue
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
It’s just a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 1990 starring Gary Oldman & Tim Roth & Richard Dreyfuss & Joanna Roth & Ian Richardson & Joanna Miles & Donald Sumpter & Iain Glen et al, director TomStoppard, Guildenstern
Cash for questions is the way of the world. The New Statesman special: A B’stard Exposed, ITV 1994
I’m starting to question all of it, Francis. What any of it is worth. What are we doing this for? House of Cards US s3e12: Chapter 38, Claire to Frank, Netflix 2015
There’s a few questions needing answers. A few faces to see. Out I: It Must Be the Suit starring Tom Bell, Frank to Chris, Thames TV 1978
Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. Tennessee Williams
Is the world created or uncreated? That is the first question. Plato, Timaeus
He then drew up a list entitled Some Problems in Philosophy. Under forty-five different headings he identified what he saw as the great unanswered questions of science. Tristram Hunt, Great Britons: Isaac Newton, BBC 2002
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? Steven Pinker