Quotes About Question

If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?

What counts today, the question which is looming on the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must reply to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.

I stop there, for who can tell me what beauty is?

The fundamental duel between which seemed to be that between colonialism and anti-colonialism, and indeed between capitalism and socialism, is already losing some of its importance. What counts today, the question which is looming on the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must reply to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.

Listening with your body, participating in the context, is so powerful precisely because it removes one of the greatest tools of listening and the greatest potential for bias: the question. Often, as we're articulating the questions we ask in field research, the patterns we think we'll see or the patterns we'd like to see start to get embedded in the question. In these cases, the question can become the enemy of the truth.

Until the 1960s, liberals understood themselves to be devotees of a rationality that allowed individuals to question authority on the basis of empirical and historical argumentation.

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

D?gen's big question when he was a young monk was this: If Buddhism teaches that we're all perfect just as we are — and it does teach that — then why do we have to undergo training? A whole lot of Sh?b?genz? is D?gen's attempt to answer that question.

Want to see my string?" Ned asked, tugging at his glove.

Who goes there?" one of them asked, drawing a sword. Farfalee answered with an arrow. As the other ran

Why is that?" Seth asked. Grandma thought about the question a moment before answering. "Because evil likes to hide.

To somebody who hasn't had any milk, do you look like a guy or a cow?" Seth asked. Brunwin glared. "I mean bull," Seth amended. "A guy or a bull.

Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.

Your name is Lift, right?" "Right." "And your order?" "More food.

Wasing the where of what

Have you ever tried to bribe a Korathi priest, Lukel?" Shuden asked pointedly. Lukel looked around uncomfortably. "I'd rather not answer that question, thank you.

Did I hear your correctly, my dear?" Ahan asked with a shaky voice. "You're going to go into Elantris?" "Yes." Sarene said. "I need something to drink," Ahan decided, unstoppering his wine flask.

However," he continued, "duty should not be accepted without question. Duty can be a motive, but should not be an excuse.