Question Quotes: Thought-Provoking Reflections on Inquiry and Curiosity...

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before"

"If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing"

"The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church"

"We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question"

"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra"

Jean Alesi, Celebrity

"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science"

Wilhelm Ostwald, Scientist

"If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"You should not ask questions without knowledge"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status"

David Mamet, Dramatist

"Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ"

E. Stanley Jones, Theologian

"I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue"

Prince Andrew, Royalty

"Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed"

Prince Andrew, Royalty

"The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?"

Larry Flynt, Publisher

"Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains"

Dudley North, Economist

"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

"The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

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

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful"

Pierre Curie, Scientist

"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

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