One Asks Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
— Saint Augustine
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
— James A. Baldwin
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I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and…
— George Carlin
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Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we…
— George Carlin
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There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
— Alan Sugar
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I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of…
— George Wald
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.…
— Nelson Goodman
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It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.
— Helen Reddy
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I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something,…
— Brian Thompson
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple…
— Rene Magritte
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In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak…
— Laozi
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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
— John Mason Brown
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[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a…
— Paul Krugman
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:…
— Albert Einstein
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Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship…
— Albert Schweitzer
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If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can…
— Steve Lacy
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me…
— Billy Crudup
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This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do…
— Carrie P Snow
Who Wrote These One Asks Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 41 One Asks Quotes, led by these top contributors: