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5875 Question quotes by 3632 unique authors
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Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
— George Carlin
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Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to…
— Anais Nin
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If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.
— Anthony Kiedis
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.
— Thomas Bernhard
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Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.
— S.J. Watson
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People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually…
— Dan Barker
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Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?
— Richelle Mead
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Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine…
— William Shakespeare
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Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with…
— Sharyn McCrumb
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And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was.…
— Kim Harrison
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That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?
— David Levithan
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For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society
— Nelson Mandela
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You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
— Ray Bradbury
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I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a…
— Rachel Vincent
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget…
— Bill Watterson
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And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't…
— Deborah Harkness
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When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that…
— Mindy Kaling
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[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for…
— Douglas Adams
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that…
— Susan Sontag
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Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is,…
— John O'Donohue
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