Question Quotes

"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

"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

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

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

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it"

Miles Davis, Musician

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"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

"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

"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"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

"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

"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

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"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

"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

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

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers"

Will Durant, Historian

"When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"Never ask a bore a question"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men"

John Locke, Philosopher

"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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