Question Quotes
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
— Jim Rohn
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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question…
— Mark Twain
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they…
— William Wordsworth
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
— William Hazlitt
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You ask people, do you pray to a person or God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
— Jonas Salk
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In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
— Richard Saul Wurman
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a…
— Stendhal
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When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in…
— Max Lerner
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These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and…
— Cesar Chavez
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The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get…
— Cesar Chavez
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
— Dan Quayle
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to…
— Max Lerner
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My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was…
— George W. Bush
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