Question Quotes

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions"

"Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"To the dumb question, why me? The cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not.'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most"

George H. W. Bush, President

"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it"

George H. W. Bush, President

"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"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, Actor

"I accept reality and dare not question it"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past"

George Crook, Soldier

"I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes"

John Zorn, Composer

"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy"

John Hutton, Educator

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter"

Christopher Morley, Author

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it"

George W. Bush, President

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

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