Ask Whether Quotes
46 quotes by 44 authors
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
— Aristotle
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse…
— Jane Austen
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten…
— Julia Cameron
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by…
— John Climacus
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You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but…
— John Peter Altgeld
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses…
— G. Stanley Hall
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We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our…
— Robert Strausz-Hupe
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He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I…
— Paulo Coelho
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
— Carl L. Becker
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
— Peter Singer
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O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It…
— Martin Luther
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When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I…
— Ashish Chauhan
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What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the…
— Gary Taubes
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Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen…
— Ferenc Molnar
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"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively…
— Michio Kaku
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
— Plato
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If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages…
— Tim Wu
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's…
— Wendell Berry
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