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Quotes About Question

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.
~ Unknown
A prudent question is one half the wisdom.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.
~ Unknown
sometimes the desert gives you an answer, and it is your job to find the question.
~ Unknown
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.
~ V.S. Ramachandran
Kuka täällä ryssää puhuu? – Koskela Suomesta. Syö rautaa ja paskantaa kettinkiä.
~ Unknown
DID WE WIN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
~ Vicki Robin
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
~ Janelle Monae
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
~ George MacDonald
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
~ Theodor Adorno
On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?
~ John Walter Bratton
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
~ Kin Hubbard
I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.
~ Unknown
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
~ Niels Bohr
in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a different question for every entity, which for the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can speak.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
You ask about the effects of my work on others. If I may wax ironical, that is a masculine questions. Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand - in the same sense that I have understood - that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
~ Unknown
Pilate's skeptical sneer What is truth? was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.
~ Peter Kreeft
Heidegger says that "the fundamental question of metaphysics" is "why is there anything at all rather than nothing?" The fundamental question is not, as Plato thought, "what" a thing is (every Platonic dialogue is about that, about an essence, a definition, a concept, such as justice or piety or learning) but why it exists, why anything exists. Plato never asked that ultimate question. And the answer is God.
~ Peter Kreeft
USTON SMITH NOTES, IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS, THAT ONLY TWO PEOPLE ever astounded their contemporaries so much that the question they evoked was not Who is he? but What is he? They were Jesus and Buddha. The answers
~ Peter Kreeft
about Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn't tell. And if he
~ Peter Robinson
least we can check them
~ Peter Robinson
will providing a guaranteed basic income create greater dependency than a single cash transfer? And are cash transfers more effective than other forms of aid? We do not yet have sufficient evidence to answer these questions.
~ Peter Singer
What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.
~ Philip K. Dick