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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. (Quote by - Stokely Carmichael)
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms (Quote by - George Eliot)
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. (Quote by - John A. Simone, Sr. )
Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. (Quote by - Joan Borysenko)
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. (Quote by - Max Beckmann)
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. (Quote by - Edward Hodnett)
If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. (Quote by - Paul Ricoeur)
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. (Quote by - Nick Cave)
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers. (Quote by - Vanessa Redgrave)
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400. (Quote by - Ted Williams)
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. (Quote by - Edward. E. Cummings)
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. (Quote by - Alan Dundes)
Every clarification breeds new questions. (Quote by - Arthur Bloch)
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. (Quote by - E. W. Dijkstra)
The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves. (Quote by - Anonymous)
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. (Quote by - Decouvertes)
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. (Quote by - Wislawa Szymborska)
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Quote by - Francis Bacon )
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. (Quote by - Syrus)
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves. (Quote by - Tom G. Palmer)
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. (Quote by - Alice Wellington Rollins)
It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent. (Quote by - Sue Wicks)
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. (Quote by - Engineer's Motto)
We question everything that we put in our garbage. With landfill sites overflowing, and with our limited budget, we try and make use and find uses for everything possible. (Quote by - Byron & Catherine Pulsifer)
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. (Quote by - Sam Keen)
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on. (Quote by - Harri Holkeri)
The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. (Quote by - John Clayton)
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question. (Quote by - Anonymous)
There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it? (Quote by - Charles Connolly)
What does it mean to succeed? It is a question that haunts many. Many people, don't set any goals for themselves and succeed at very little. (Quote by - Catherine Pulsifer)
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions. (Quote by - Herbert Prochnow)
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own. (Quote by - Leo Stein)
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed. (Quote by - Talcott Parsons)
It is not every question that deserves an answer. (Quote by - Syrus)
That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes. (Quote by - John Zorn)
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. (Quote by - Kate Chopin)
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. (Quote by - George Santayana)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? (Quote by - Scott Adams)
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked. (Quote by - William Shatner)
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask? (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students. (Quote by - Godfrey Reggio)
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. (Quote by - Syrus)
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. (Quote by - Lloyd Alexander)
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. (Quote by - Dr. Ralph Gerard)
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. (Quote by - Ursula K. Le Guin)
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. (Quote by - Gerald Jampolsky)
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, what is the most valuable use of my time right now? (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. (Quote by - Bishop Creighton)
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. (Quote by - Steve Miller)
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. (Quote by - John Lubbock, Sr)
A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked. (Quote by - Jay London)
A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Quote by - Lord Darling)
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. (Quote by - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck)
I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative? (Quote by - Lord Trent)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most. (Quote by - George H. W. Bush)
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do. (Quote by - Sam Donaldson)
The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way (Quote by - African Proverb)
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert )
Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously. (Quote by - Rob Corddry)
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. (Quote by - Alan Alda)
An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer. (Quote by - Anonymous)
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. (Quote by - Helen Reddy)
It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (Quote by - James Thurber)
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
Man will not live without answers to his questions. (Quote by - Hans J. Morgenthau)
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. (Quote by - Anthony Jay)
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. (Quote by - Edgar Cayce)
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr. )
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. (Quote by - Charles Steinmetz)
When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (Quote by - James Thurber)
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask. (Quote by - Morley Safer)
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again. (Quote by - Sandra Bernhard)
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons. (Quote by - Tony Campolo)
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply. (Quote by - Howard Staunton)
For every why he had a wherefore. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis )
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. (Quote by - Thomas Berger)
Good questions outrank easy answers. (Quote by - Paul A Samuelson)
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions. (Quote by - Bruce Nauman)
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. (Quote by - John J. Plomp)
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. (Quote by - Chris Van Allsburg)
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems. (Quote by - Harri Holkeri)
I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true? (Quote by - Jim Bower)
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. (Quote by - Yo-Yo Ma)
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. (Quote by - S. Tobin Webster )
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? (Quote by - Bo Bennett)
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with fact is a fool. (Quote by - Frank A Garbutt)
I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems. (Quote by - Hans Frank)
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. (Quote by - Gwen Ifill)
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions. (Quote by - Anonymous)
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. (Quote by - Anonymous)
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. (Quote by - Daniel Okrent)
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. (Quote by - Indira Ghandi)
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions. (Quote by - Samuel Wilson)
There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven... (Quote by - Jack Johnson)
Great questions make great reporting. (Quote by - Diane Sawyer)
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? (Quote by - Jeff Gannon)
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for? (Quote by - Abraham Heschel)
I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me. (Quote by - Rafael Palmeiro)
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? . (Quote by - James Allen)
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other. (Quote by - Wilfrid Laurier)
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. (Quote by - Emma Watson)
Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions. (Quote by - Susan Smith)
You should not ask questions without knowledge. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. (Quote by - Sarah Brightman)
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions. (Quote by - Jimmy Carl Black)
He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers (Quote by - African Proverb)
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct. (Quote by - Karl Lagerfeld)
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. (Quote by - Robert Sheckley)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. (Quote by - Thomas Pynchon)
I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection. (Quote by - Peter Jennings)
