Quotation Explorer - 'Question'

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures. - Abhijit Naskar

When question ariseBelieve or not to believeAlways believe. - Debasish Mridha

Cold air clawed at my face, ripping tears from my eyes. I buried my face deep into Daniel's back and breathed in a mixture of familiar scents - almonds, oil paint, earth, and a hint of varnish. I didn't even question why I was on that bike. I just knew I was suppose to be. - Bree Despain

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed. - Nikki Rowe

Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question... - Christopher Dutton

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. - Toni Morrison

Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers. - Debasish Mridha

Poetry calls into question what it means to be human - Sandra Alcosser

A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only spontaneously add a soul when we evolved into Homo sapiens? - David G. McAfee

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness. - Dan Stevens

The only certainties in life are time and change. The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change? - Doug Pedersen

Who am i? I'm the one you won't be able to handle. I'm the one who is the other side of the picture. I'm the one who is going to make you question everything you believe. I'm the one whom you can never understand. - Ashbeel Roy

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations. - Bill Watterson

If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the people who question things are considered black sheep and the people who give you the answers, Wolves - Theodore Coldiron

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question. - Joss Whedon

A mind without a secret is with a question mark! A mind with so many secrets shall attract an exclamation one day! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid? - Michael Scherer

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. - David Morrell

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry

I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs. - Pearl Jam

If you want to impress someone, simply make up a vocation and preface it with the words molecular or theoretical (as in molecular biologist or theoretical physicist). After you do this no one will question the veracity of anything you say—whether it is related to your putative vocation or not. - Clifford Cohen

When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question. - Pablo Andrés Wunderlich Padilla

Love is the only answer to every question - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered. - Vladimir I. Vernadsky

What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question. - Maurice J. Dubois

It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right. - Anonymous

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most. - Penn Jillette

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

if there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes - W. Clement Stone

Love is beautiful, yet the worst of crimes are committed in the name of love. So when someone claims to love you, you should question their intent. - Gugu Mona

For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question. - Richard Diaz

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question What do these people have to do with us? and What are we doing out there in the world? - Kamila Shamsie

I wasnt looking for anything when I found you & it somehow made me question what I wanted, was i ready for love? I don't think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again it's kind of worth the risk... - Nikki Rowe

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question. - Chloe Thurlow

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? - William Badke

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. - Homer

To be or not to be. That's not really a question. - Jean-Luc Godard

If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him. - Ron Brackin

whenever a new thing is required for the world, then it is created spontaneously. This means a new thing is created within the body of a human body and the world gets the same thing.What is that new thing? It is the eternal question - who am I and what is the relation between the human race and me. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time. - John Green

I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question! - Anne Perry

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.[CNN interview (December 8, 2010)] - Steve Wozniak

Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence. - Deyth Banger

A wise man's question contains half the answer. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. - Ambrose Bierce

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them? - H.G. Wells

Do question, even the basics!You will be a fool for once!If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime.. - Himmilicious

Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill? - Matthew McConaughey

Ignorance never settles a question. - Benjamin Disraeli

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self? - Gian Kumar

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson

When you start to question you are part of the problem. - Bert McCoy

We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears? - John Mark Green

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)"How do you find America?""Turn left at Greenland. - Ringo Starr

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau

Tout est question d'équilibre - Mireille Guiliano

Always ask yourself the question "Is this going to help get me to my goal or not? - Bob Proctor

A good question is the shortcut to a good answer. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. 'Yes' is the answer.

Knowing the question is more important than knowing the answer. It makes you curious, lets you think, and helps you to understand and open your mind. - Debasish Mridha

Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it? - Deyth Banger

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever. - Homer

One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to make a change - Prakhar Srivastav

Every thought we process in our minds represents two things to the subconscious; A question that will open a Pandora's box is being asked & A request is being made. - Auliq-Ice

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways. - Carla H. Krueger

In my opinion, one of the answers to the question of underdevelopment of nations, is in the CULTURE of DIGNITY OF LABOR. - Sunday Adelaja

The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is – what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when sorry has no meaning in action? - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you. - Connie Willis

Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character. - Jim George

There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer. - Dejan Stojanovic

You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom your teachers,seekers like yourself, and the studentswho question your answer. - Shmuel HaNagid

there is one question on my head , its people complicated or life complicated or people make it complicated or me so complicated what complicated even mean ? - Jameel

I teach what compels us to question our reality - Bert McCoy

If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God's grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means honoring those with whom our love is rooted. - W. Scott Lineberry

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. - Voltaire

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. - Edward P. Tryon

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Question with boldness even the existence of aGod; because, if there be one, he must more approve ofthe homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson

What are you doing today that serves the greater mission for your life? Once you can answer that question without batting an eye, that's when you're really on to something. - Chris Hill

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111] - Edward T. Welch

Feelings don't have logic, hence one must not question Why & How! - Ramana Pemmaraju

When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­ - Henri Cartier-Bresson

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. - Voltaire

In our environment,we have answers for almost every question we have,it depends on how sincerely we seek them. - Deeksha Mittal

Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers. ~ Levitt & Dubner, "Superfreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It! - William Geist

My father wrote: "Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it. - Emily Thorne

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question. - Riley Cavanaugh

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering. - Atul Gawande

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. - Diogenes Laërtius

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult? - Suman Pokhrel

How people started to disappear??It's an interesting question isn't it?I guess on 89% sure that they are killed in the time, we live in the future and they are killed in the past... so far a time teleport used by the adults! - Deyth Banger

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. - Norman Manea

Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward; there is a burning desire in your heart that will make you the person you can become – A superstar! - Maureen Lawrence

it’s more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer. - Edward Shirley

The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people- those who live to dreamand those who dream to liveAsk them the question about death if they can truly conceive - Munia Khan

True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out. - Shannon L. Alder

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question.

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions. - Randy K. Milholland

Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future... - Shelly Thacker

mysterious like the moon, she would delight you in her glow, her light alone can make you question yourself.. & who was she? She will never let you know. - Nikki Rowe

What you are is a question only you can answer. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes. - Cody Simpson

The Friendship is a suicide, the question is "Are you ready to suicide?". - Deyth Banger

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of? - Shannon L. Alder

For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means? - Milan Kundera

The question to always be in your inner dialogue, asking yourself...is it kind? - Eileen Anglin

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it. - D.A. Simpson

What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it. - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open. - Maurice Blanchot

Question for job applicants: What important truth do very few people agree with you on? - Peter Thiel

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire

The urgent question; have you live a fuller life? - Lailah Gifty Akita

I can say.. that I never said that... we never met and this never happen... How?(Good question, the answer I will leave it for later) - Deyth Banger

Never make a promise you can't keep.Never look down on a person you can't help.Never solicit a question you can't answer.Never judge a person you don't understand.Never condemn a person you don't know. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. - Richard Feynman

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down. - Laurie Helgoe

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer

Life is not a true or false question. - Rebecca McKinsey

The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. - Pierre Abélard

In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? - Lily Tomlin

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions? - Norman Maclean

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one. - Greta Christina

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present? - Sara Sheridan

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain. - James Rozoff

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. - Bill Nye

When question arise Dream or not to dream Always dream. - Debasish Mridha

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. - Novalis

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question. - Melissa Senate

Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free. - Jay Woodman

The Question is actually the answer - Jerril Thomas Abraham

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. - Ambrose Bierce

Life is a question, to live it positively is the Answer - Samar Sudha

Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa? - Hedy Lamarr

So much of life isn’t about having the right answer; it’s about knowing the right question. - Duane Hewitt

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit? - Barbara Kingsolver

If the answer of your question is the question of your answer be Nacre - Hamza Khan Takkar

Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God. - C. JoyBell C.

When question ariseHope or not to hopeAlways hope. - Debasish Mridha

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? - Woody Allen

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." - Paul Tillich

It's never too late to start a new chapter of life, but question arise is it that easy to start a new beginning??? - Debolina

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. - Daniel C. Dennett

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. - William Shakespeare

When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question. - Michael Bassey Johnson

De retour au village, nous demandons aux Indiens : "Pourquoi n'avez-vous tué qu'un seul caïman ?" Le guide n'a pas l'air de comprendre. Nous reposons la question. Et le petit chasseur de répondre : "Il faut laisser des animaux pour nos fils et les fils de nos fils. - Christian Kempf

[The answer of to the question 'Which is the most perfect popular government?']That where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution. - Solon

I couldn't be better at ANYTHING until I got to know who I was. That is the beauty of answering the question, 'Who am I? - Divine K. Kpe, Educator, Social Entrepreneur, Corporate Writer, Speaker

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. - Frank Herbert

She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other. - Robin Williams

If a celebrity from one walk of life is engaged to promote the growth of another field's activity, then the authority’s sincerity for its publicity is always under a big question mark. - Anuj Somany

No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle! - Elizabeth George

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules. - The Mirror of Maybe

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week? - Eugene H. Peterson

We're born along and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them. - Erlend Loe

The world, control phones, don't you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It's th right question? - Deyth Banger

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. - Anna Jameson

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. - Paul Tillich

The question why I don't shake hand with someone,A reason is Behind;Scumbags call it Attitude but they really don't know its actually the antimatter Waqas is composed of. - Waqas Bin Ehsan

Question everything, unless it's the answer - Benny Bellamacina

Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life. - Nikki Rowe

[When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world?']It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc. - Björk

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. - Sir Francis Bacon

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." - Lewis Carroll

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything. - Molly Ivins

If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially. - Kelle Sparta

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t do you know the right words?.The real question is, can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls? - Jacob Nordby

Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today? - Peter Maher

One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. - Ashlee Vance

Someone was going to die; of that he was perfectly sure.The only question was who. - Caroline Lawerence

Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence? - Vironika Tugaleva

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. - Simone de Beauvoir

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King Jr.

For every question, there is a book. - Robert Goolrick

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked - Laurell K. Hamilton

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. - Rachel Carson

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. - Madeleine L'Engle

Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill) - Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. - Barack Obama

If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"? - Israelmore Ayivor

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maybe it’s not good trying to answer the question ‘What is my purpose in life?’ Maybe the better question is: ‘How can I make someone’s life better TODAY? - Steven Aitchison

To question reason is to trust it. - Mitch Stokes

The most important question that we should ask is, How can I serve? - Debasish Mridha

It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Publilius Syrus

I shall challenge all authority. Question all who claim dominion over me. I am not a thoughtless being but a man with his own beliefs. - Grandaddy BAD

Sick is a relative concept. We’re all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed. - Jo Nesbø

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question. - Imam Ja'Far Al-Sadiq

Is it a time for you, you I say, to dwell in your roofed-in houses?' (Haggai 1:4). The reply might have been that it was unreasonable to expect anyone to live in a roofless house, but the question made its point. What worth did they set on their God, when they left His Temple in ruins? - Joyce G. Baldwin

Nevertheless, I sought counsel from my leaders and obeyed, even when I knew their advice would make my life more complicated. I decided it was not for me to question and that if some advice caused temporary pain for me, it must be something I should experience. - Gordon B. Hinckley

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? - Charles Stross

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to. - Randy Pausch

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. - Lao Tzu

Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one's creativity and reveal more possibilities. - Nabil N. Jamal

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival. - Dalai Lama XIV

Please stay safe inside, and should you see yourself, I cannot condone murdering yourself. I just do not believe violence is ever the answer. (It is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying.) - Jeffrey Cranor

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. - Sir Francis Bacon

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is? - priyavrat gupta

A question impresses me more than an answer. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. - Tahir Shah

Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears.

We hear so often that we must read but what is more important and often not advised is to always think and question what we read.Reading, retaining and repeating is often called education. Wisdom is when we can read, question, adapt and apply what is relevant to the time and space in which we exist. - Lennox D.Lampkin

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned. - Brooke McEldowney

All it takes is one person to question the possibility of a different way of life, in order to unlock a chained heart. - Shannon L. Alder

A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal. - François Lelord

When question arise Be or not to beAlways be. - Debasish Mridha

Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power. - Simone de Beauvoir

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself. - Immanuel Kant

Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love. - Debasish Mridha

To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded. - Walter Isaacson

Don’t whittle your potential, just because others don’t believe in you. The only worthy question is Do You Believe in You? - Manprit Kaur

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God. - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it! - Lynn Johnston

After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] "How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived. - Ronald C. White Jr.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me. - Jean-Paul Sartre

you ask me a question I'll give you an answer…but don't look at me when I say something you don't want to hear. - Turcois Ominek

The answer to why we exist does not exist, at least not where most of us look for it. We must look inward not out. We should not ask this question of life, but rather of ourselves - and then answer it. - Glenn A. Maltais

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

What is the meaning to this life? is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn’t contain any meaning till we don’t write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn’t contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it. - Brajesh Kumar

Ol, ol you have learnt something new, didn't you??So you are saying it again and again with smile like we are an idiots, but my question is did you understand it? Do you know what did you said, so you big peace of shit say something more to impress us, because this doesn't impress us. - Deyth Banger

When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help. - Debasish Mridha

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question. - Jack Kerouac

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? - Lois McMaster Bujold

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. - Oswald Chambers

Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another. "Are memories such an important thing?""It depends," she replies, and closes her eyes. "In some cases, they're the most important thing there is. - Haruki Murakami

To be the body-mind or not to be the body-mind, this is the question. - Bert McCoy

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. - Charlie Chaplin

Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer. - Ali Ezzat Bigovich

Question everything and start from yourself. - Iisakki Totuudentalo

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer - Douglas Adams

The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it. - J.R. Rim

We live in a world full of duplicity.We are surrounded by people with duplicitous nature.They will be shooting arrows to question our honesty at every step we make.Therefore,it is our duty to protect ourselves by using our integrity as an armor and march forward, victoriously. - Indy Bissessur

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us. - Jay Woodman

To question is to grow. - Heather Small

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. - Kedar Joshi

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything. - Noam Chomsky

The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel. - Richelle E. Goodrich

There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past, that you can survive without a brain but not for long period...What Is Consciousness? And many other stuff... (so the question which has left, do you have the time to do it?) - Deyth Banger

The world is not a playground; it's a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. And the one eternal question for us all is how better we can love.

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else. - E.M. Forster

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. - Aristotle

No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight? - Kurt Vonnegut

The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man. - Thucydides

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? - G.F. Smith

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. - Edgar Allan Poe

Every call and every question has an answer and that is your love. - Debasish Mridha

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.— Rhett - Rowena Cherry

To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart.. To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away. - Anna Jae

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? - Ernest Hemingway

To see the positive or not to see the positive, this is the question. - Bert McCoy

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us - Farley Maglaya

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. - Christopher Hitchens

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state. - Stewart Stafford

People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? - Ysabeau S. Wilce

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand. - Rob Liano

Something right in the morning can turn into something wrong in the afternoon! Even if you are on the right path, you must still question the rightness of your path! Conditions perpetually change! Update your path and your travel constantly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

People shouldn't question their desires. They should just live. - Marty Rubin

My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand the principle in question, while being ignorant implies that you do not understand the principle in question, and therefore, have no right to critique. - Lionel Suggs

Trust means there is no question.If there is no question then no need for any answer,which means complete balance.Always keep in your mind trust is the base for any kind of relationship. - Deshwal Sachin

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one. - Paula Fox

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson

*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it. - Ibnoulkhatib Yahya

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Mum was determinate to crush my spirit and put a stop to my behavior once and for all and she beat me up so violently, so often, that I finally understood I must never question her or so much as look at her directly again. - Joe Peters

What if this weren't a hypothetical question? - Unknown

For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go! - Laurence Hope

Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience. - Debasish Mridha

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. - Bede Griffiths

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. - Freeman Dyson

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones. - J.I. Packer

Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?and the correct answer is Not really. - Auliq a

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. - Maya Angelou

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such. - Raheel Farooq

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. - Plato

The question is not 'Am I a leader?' - the question is 'What kind of leader am I? - Steve Knox

A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

Which is my favourite book??Very complicated question... so far... I think that the question should be "My favourite books...!". - Deyth Banger

You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. - Rumman Bin Sadiq

How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it. [Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.] - J.R. Richard

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. - Timothy Garton Ash

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever. - Rachel Naomi Remen

Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment. - Criss Jami

I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation … This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it. - Albert Einstein

The most important question I ever asked a priest was where are the Bingo Dobbers at? - Stabley Victor Paskavich

Every answer asks a more beautiful question - e e cummings

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. - Desmond Morris

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. - Alan Paton

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement. - Os Guinness

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question. - Richelle Mead

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. - C.S. Lewis

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! - Jalaluddin Rumi

When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you? - Amit Abraham

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King Jr.

I have two questions for you: one, what kind of person do you want to be? Two, what kind of music would I find on your playlist? If any answer in the second question is in conflict with your answer to the first question, you may want to make a few changes. - Justin Young

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. - Harun Yahya

Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it? - C. Nzingha Smith

We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations. - M.F. Moonzajer

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious. - Raheel Farooq

Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I have hunted him,' said Danton. 'He is within, and I am watching him,' said Robespierre.

The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done. - John Thackway

Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice. - M.F. Moonzajer

A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself gone already in his visions. - Israelmore Ayivor

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home. - Joy Davidman

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. - Joseph Conrad

If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it. - Michel Templet

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. - Thomas Merton

Do not let any question goes out of your mind without doing something about it. - Hamzat haruna Ribah

Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - Aldo Leopold

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story - Chuck Wendig

The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ‘‘Did the professor respect you? - Kwame Anthony Appiah

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes? - Mehmet Murat ildan

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what? - Iimani David

Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things though. Never regret your mistakes as there's a reason for everything.Grudges are toxic and heavy to bear. Let them go, learn from everything and continue to grow. - Karen Gibbs

There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one. - Alexis De Tocqueville

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. - Willard Scott

He who has a question will always be able to find the answer. - Debasish Mridha

A girl yesterday during my program asked me a question; Sir, Why is this world an Unsafe place? And i had confusion not clarity... No answers - Dinesh Kumar

When someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer just yell, 'Figure it out!'

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. - Woody Allen

The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. - Theodore Roosevelt

You ought to question, if you do not understand. - Lailah Gifty Akita

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S. Thompson

It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do. - Lightning Claire Farron FF13

Whats on my mind? I think the question is, where is my mind? - Laura Hanna

Now when you say staring, are you including yourself in this assessment? I recall you taking in the view on several occasions.""For the last time, I was not staring at you." I was a terrible liar. "Now, if you're done, I'd like to finish asking my question. - Stacey O'Neale

I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world. - Deyth Banger

My question was:How did I go from merely seeing the dirty French Santa in a bar to being in his hotel room the next morning? And this presented me with an actual equation. How did one plus one equal old French Santa? - Augusten Burroughs

No question is ever settled until it is settled right. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. - Abraham Lincoln

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ? - Charlyn Khater

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power. - J. William Fulbright (Senator)

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives. - Pema Chödrön

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith. - Nutan Bajracharya

Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books. - Abhijit Naskar

The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? - Jeremy Bentham

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...? - Roland Barthes

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. - John Ruskin

My biggest question was how to get rid of desire while going after your dreams? Dreams are desire in some way, shape or form. My answer is go after your dreams but don't get lost in your actions by staying present as often as possible. - Matthew Donnelly

Love or not to loveWhen question ariseLove or not to loveAlways love. - Debasish Mridha

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith. - Thomas Jefferson

Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are the very cornerstones of any democratic society. I firmly believe that it is the very right to question the status quo that allows a society to develop and prosper.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it? - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be. - D.H. Lawrence

Progress belongs to the Askers; the smarter the question, the lesser the guessing. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...? - Franklin Clermont

I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth. - Kowtham Kumar K

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson

The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again - Steven Magee

My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature. - Abhijit Naskar

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question. - Dee Williams

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? - Yann Martel

There are two sides to every question. - Protagoras

Hey, hey wait... wait... try again.... It works does it?? (What?? YOu are asking a question did you?? I'm talking about the problem which you had and something didn't work as well as far as I can see... So I will wait... wait... try now!) - Deyth Banger

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? - Carl R. Rogers

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets. - Michel Templet

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. - Edmund Burke

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? - Martin Luther King Jr.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. - Piet Hein

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence? - David W. Earle

When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the moments after: his brother’s murderer. - V.S. Carnes

There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people’s beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms. - Keith Harmon

Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions. - Dee Williams

I find the question "Why are we here?" typically human. I'd suggest "Are we here?" would be the more logical choice.

To a quick question, give a slow answer. - Italian Proverb

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. - Azar Nafisi

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you. - Robert M. Drake

Get busy living or get busy trying. Life will move forward with or without you. The question is; will you move forward in life without yourself? - Steven Cuoco

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. - John Adams

Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them. - Stephen Richards

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing. - Oscar Wilde

question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Change isn’t a choice; it’s already happening. You are atoms and molecules in motion… you can’t avoid change; you ARE change. The question is whether you will EMBRACE the power of change to enhance your life or continue to exhaust yourself in the pointless endeavor to halt it. - Steve Maraboli

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears. - Michel Foucault

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

can I ask you a simple but complex question? Why are you still alive and living? - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question. - A.E. Samaan

Knowing the answer is knowledge and knowing the question is wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

Should I ask everyone the question that should not have been asked? Or should I turning up to the sky be answering the question that’s not been asked? - Suman Pokhrel

Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing? - Sunday Adelaja

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them. - David Reisman

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job. - R. N. Prasher

Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false. - David W. Earle

If you want the answer—ask the question. - Lorii Myers

They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on hisface was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - anunsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just seeit, the question and answer staring one in the face. - Srividya Srinivasan

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. - Sir Francis Bacon

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. - Henry James

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Luck Doesn't Exist in one's world, its the unexplainable and the unexpected that makes some question fate - Elliot Kesebonye

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace. - David Brier

Sometimes Life seems to be a big QUESTION MARK. Don't know where it will lead us to.... - Prathima Bhandary

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. - Federico Fellini

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? - Ann Druyan

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. - Clay Christensen

In this very special self-hypnotic state there can be no question of getting out of touch with on[e]self and floating into a normal sleep (unless you are very tired at the start) - Vladimir Nabokov

Question authority... Then ignore it! - Joseph Barjack

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason

When faced with 2 choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air YOU SUDDENLY KNOW WHAT YOUR HOPING FOR. :) - wisdom quotes

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question. - Shannon L. Alder

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time. - Rainbow Rowell

The baby, not too young to start knowing the ledge, the cold truth, the life-and-death facts of it all. 'What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?' The baby, understanding perhaps it was purely rhetorical, made no attempt to answer this question. - Michael Chabon

Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go. - Hugh Macleod

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking? - Terry Eagleton

On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being. - Duop Chak Wuol

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. - Loren Weisman

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. - George Orwell

Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question. - Jacob Nordby

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. - Carl Sagan

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time - Cressida Cowell

There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question. - Antonia Michaelis

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses. - Walter Mosley

By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" ) - Erik Pevernagie

The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor. - Israelmore Ayivor

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest? - Randy Thornhorn

I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!! - Anonymous

if love is not the answer, make sure to change the question. - Charlyn Khater

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. - Tom Clancy

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume. - Dee Williams

Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer. - Debasish Mridha

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done. - Allard Lowenstein

As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being. - Rachel Archelaus

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property, and if it were a question of poetry we would likely find that she is the daughter of love. - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Do not just accept but dare to question. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful... - Henri Bergson

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world? - Neal Shusterman

The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine: Which shall rule — wealth or man? Which shall lead — money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations — educated and patriotic freemen or the feudal serfs of corporate capital? - Edward G. Ryan

People don’t choose dreams, dreams choose them. So the question I’m getting to is, do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you? - Prince Ea

If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down. - Kristin Richter

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? - Enrico Bombieri

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is the greatest mercy that humankind cannot connect up all its diverse bits of information, but a day is coming when we will and the question is whether we will embrace that light, or run from it into the sheltering shadows of a new dark age.

Love is anything but safe, it's wild and raw and will rip at your heart strings but once you've tasted it for the very first time it becomes like an addiction feeling nostalgia when seperated for another beating heart & before them you question where you called home. - Nikki Rowe

The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust. - Anthony Liccione

today's my life and i feel that " Every question have an answer but sometime that answer again becomes a question.... - vicky vora

life is a question unanswered till its end - Agha Kousar

Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul. - Angie karan

Question is not whether you can do it not, it's always whether you did it or not. - anubhav

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question. - Jonathan A.C. Brown

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am. - Frederick Weisel

MY EFFORTS FAIL I DON'T CRY,EVEN I CAN'T CATCH DREAMS SKY,I DIDN'T GIVE UP N ALWAYS TRY,MY MIND QUESTION ME WHY?MY HEART REMIND TO FLY. - merlin8thomas

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself. - Salman Mansuri

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God… - Steve Wozniak

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question. - Vironika Tugaleva

How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it. - Matthew Donnelly

I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others. - J.W. Lord

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. - Betty Friedan

Don’t ask a yes or no question unless the person being asked can say no without hesitation. - Clifford Cohen

We unfortunately identify people by their religion, but my question is that, how can you say that we got different religious when we all smile in a same language..! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus

Is the question 'Why is it bad to do bad things?' the same as asking permission?

If you were blessed to wake up this morning, remember that you have indeed won the grand universal lottery; you have been given yet another chance at life! Your big question is, what will you do with your winnings today? - Inshan Meahjohn

Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore. - Janice Anderson

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - E. W. Dijkstra

A man of knowledge can certainly offer some reasonable options to solve a problem – the question is why such a man is not always included in problem solving - Eraldo Banovac

It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Whether morality is moral is an open question. - R.N. Prasher

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different. - Jane Austen

He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge - Respicius Rwehumbiza

If I have to question a friendship, then it wasn't a friendship to begin with. - Peprah Boasiako

The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists. - Kedar Joshi

A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know. - Matthew J. Kirby

The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith? - J.F. Baldwin

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. - John Cage

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact when they can, and the weak grant what they must. - Thucydides

I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward. - Nikki Rowe

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance. - Henry David Thoreau

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