Quotes About Question

The North Korean regime and its leaders have often been described as irrational. My experiences have made me question that contention and wonder if this "irrationality" is more often than not a label applied to those who do not wish to understand an opponent's worldview.

The third question, thankfully, was less emotional. It read: "What is wrong with this statement?" How funny, Reynie thought, and marking down his answer he felt somewhat cheered. "It isn't a statement at all," he wrote. "It's a question.

Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, 'What's wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

In order for women to progress, we must question all authority, be willing to challenge any rule aimed at controlling our sexual behavior, and avoid doing business as usual, thereby maintaining the status quo.

My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?

The opening scene is easy. Exterior: Greenwich Village. The beginning of a new decade. A gust of wind, a lucky taxi, a question. Will you come? And then the rest will unfold in mysterious and surprising ways. But there will be no happy ending, because there will be no ending at all. The movie will last forever.

What's a nimposser?" asked another voice.

What?" he roared.

Why aren't they moving?" Cricket asked. She hesitated at a large tree root, inspected the shadows around it, then gingerly stepped over it. "Stupid question. We obviously don't know," Nettle muttered. "Never seen snakes act like this.

So the first thing is to question or ponder or wonder about something. The second is to create or invent a solution or a new idea. The third is to"—she paused, trying to summarize the discussion we had just had—"evaluate and assess whether it's a good idea.

Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

End? You don't mean like, dead end?

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

The difference between design and research seems to be a question of new versus good.

on the border itself, the US immigration officer answered one of my questions by saying, "I have no idea. I don't have a clue. I have never been there"—and raised his blue arm and the yellow nail of his hairy finger to point across fifty feet of sunny road to Mexico.

How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?

By the way, who invented Peace?

Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.

This is why they are warriors of the light. Because they err. Because they question. Because they seek a reason - and they will surely find it.

I would ask my teacher a question, Yehonala said. Ask, Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side. When may I paint a picture of my own? Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. When I can no longer command you.

he believed that to answer a child's question before it is asked is to destroy natural curiosity.