Whether Quotes
8975 Whether quotes by 5291 unique authors
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If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
— Henri Nouwen
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There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
— Winston Churchill
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Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
— Henry David Thoreau
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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and…
— James Wolfensohn
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
— Russell Simmons
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Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will…
— Dan Millman
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care…
— Lysander Spooner
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should…
— Ludwig von Mises
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How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike…
— Walter E. Williams
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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of…
— Herbert Spencer
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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to…
— L. Neil Smith
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The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
— Evan Esar
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...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad…
— William Whewell
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I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,…
— Aldo Leopold
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical…
— David Lack
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The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the…
— Francis Collins
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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of…
— Johannes Kepler
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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity…
— Albert Einstein
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I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in…
— Leo Szilard
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries…
— Linus Pauling
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The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating…
— Samuel Johnson
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any…
— Jonathan Swift
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