Question Quotes

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"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"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"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, Author

"Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake"

Barack Obama, President

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers"

James Thurber, Comedian

"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"

Charles Eames, Designer

"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance"

Craig Bruce

"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions"

Maya Lin, Architect

"So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem"

Thomas Harrison

"There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry"

Allen Tate, Poet

"There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now"

Bill Scott, Actor

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