Question Quotes

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul"

Jones Very, Poet

"The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"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"

Peter Abelard, Philosopher

"To be, or not to be: that is the question"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is not every question that deserves an answer"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"We have the power to create a better future for ourselves and for the planet. The question is, what kind of future do we want to create?"

Peter Knights, Activist

"We have the power to change the world for the better. The question is, do we have the will?"

Peter Knights, Activist

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"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, President

"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, President

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement"

Ronald Reagan, President

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"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., Minister

"The question is not whether 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., Minister

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

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