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Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous. — Byron Katie
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery. — Louis Pasteur
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion. — Joseph Conrad
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?" — Robert Breault
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done… — Christopher Hitchens
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with… — Benjamin Tucker
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition. — Benjamin Tucker
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book. — Peter Hammill
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question. — Unknown Author
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian… — F. F. Bruce
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. — John Dingell
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case.… — Milton Friedman
The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what… — Cecilia Bartoli
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply… — Jean-Francois Lyotard

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