Unasked Questions Quotes

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?

There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.

Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.

What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

It is always the case that when something emerges - which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different - then people say, 'She hasn't told us this yet' and 'She hasn't told us that yet.' I don't know - maybe there are other things I didn't talk about because no one ever asked me.

There's things you just don't ask, because if you did, the interview would be over very quickly.