Question Quotes
5875 quotes by 3632 authors
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What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means…
— Albert Einstein
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God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake…
— Oswald Chambers
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The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
— Nicole Krauss
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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as…
— Douglas Adams
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Chaz looks me dead in the eye and says, 'Why yes, Lizzie. I’m manically depressed because the girl I’ve finally realized I’ve always been in…
— Meg Cabot
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He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.
— Peter Kropotkin
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It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters…
— Robin McKinley
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
— Albert Einstein
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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various…
— Epictetus
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and…
— John Stuart Mill
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I know you love me. The question is, how much?
— Jodi Picoult
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It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
— Chuck Klosterman
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The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
— Peter Drucker
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Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate.…
— Paulo Coelho
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It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the…
— John Stuart Mill
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