Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“In the end, when all the trappings of empire are stripped away, it is every man for himself. 1528” — Panfilo de Navaez Copy Share Image
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead… — Alan Tower Waterman Copy Share Image
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to… — Harvey Jackins Copy Share Image
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and… — Laurent A. Daloz Copy Share Image
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto… — George Will Copy Share Image
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
One of the great compliments paid the Savior was that he taught as one having authority. The missionary who knows scripture and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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