<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Questioning - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52743]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52748]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are the creative acts of intelligence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power to question is the basis of all human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52739]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52733]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52731]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why can endure any how]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46533]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good questions outrank easy answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/851</guid></item></channel></rss>