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Questions |
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| "Live the questions." |
| -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| "The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to
illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of
others." |
| -- James Arthur Baldwin
(1924-87), American writer, critic |
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| "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he's one who asks the right questions." |
| -- Claude Levi-Strauss |
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| "It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his
questions than by his answers." |
| -- Le Duc de Levis |
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| “Millions saw the apple fall,
but Newton asked why.”
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| -- Berard Baruch |
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| "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife
asks for nothing." |
| -- Joey Adams (b. 1911),
American comedian, author |
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| "It is better to debate a question without
settling it than to settle a question without debating it." |
| -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
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"History is, strictly speaking, the
study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and
sociology."
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-- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73),
British-born American writer |
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| "How do you know so much about everything? was
asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never
being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was
ignorant." |
| -- Lord Billingsley |
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| "Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the
answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." |
| -- Woody Allen (b. 1935),
American comedian, movie actor and producer |
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| "As
soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise,
human science is at a loss." |
| -- Noam Chomsky (b. 1928),
American linguist, writer, author |
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| "I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions
are certainly worth thinking about." |
| -- Arthur C(harles) Clarke (b.
1917), British science fiction writer |
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| "Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." |
| -- Frank Kingdon |
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| "Tis not every question that deserves an
answer." |
| -- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1608-61), English
clergyman |
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| "To ask the hard question is simple." |
| -- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73), British-born
American writer |
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“It is a good morning exercise for a research
scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It
keeps him young.” |
| --
Konrad Lorenz |
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| "We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer
itself." |
| -- Lloyd Alexander |
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| "What really interests me is whether God had any choice in
the creation of the world." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| “The first question anyone
or anything should ask is this: ‘What am I in my essential nature
and being?’ ... If he is a true artist, of language or life, he
will seek his destiny and grow toward his meaning." |
| -- E. Merrill Root |
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| "Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms." |
| -- George Eliot (1819-80), [Mary Ann Evans] British writer |
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| "Beyond a
critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers
increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive
within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do
survive." |
| -- Frank Herbert Dune |
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"The mere formulation of a
problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a
matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new
possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative
imagination and marks real advances in science."
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| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "In all
affairs its a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the
things you have long taken for granted." |
| -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970),
British philosopher, social critic |
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| "A prudent question is one-half of
wisdom." |
| -- Francis Bacon |
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“The cure for boredom is
curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” |
| -- Ellen Paar |
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| "Every man ought to be inquisitive through
every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no
longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question
in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance." |
| -- Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925), American
editor, essayist |
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| "The human who never asks the big
questions is condemned to be a small-minded person with a small
heart and myopic vision." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about
the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at
bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of
ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it
passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual
movement."
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| -- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937),
Italian political theorist |
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| "You know children are growing up when they start asking
questions that have answers." |
| -- John J. Plop |
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| "The question isn't who is going to let
me; it's who is going to stop me." |
| -- Ayn Rand, American writer |
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| "Live
your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live
along some distant day into your answers." |
| -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| "There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing
answers." |
| -- Carl Rowen |
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| "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his
answers." |
| -- Francois Marie Arouet
Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher |
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| "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes
without asking a clear question." |
| -- Albert Camus (1913-60), French philosopher |
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| "He
who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a
question remains a fool forever." |
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--
Chinese Proverb |
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- "The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon
your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that
make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that
you "come to terms with" only to discover that they
are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They
barge into your life at the times when it seems most important
for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most
frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal
their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your
will."
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| -- Ingrid Bengis |
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| "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in
your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked
rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
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 now. Perhaps you will
find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some
distant day into the answer. " |
| -- Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet |
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| "At the close of life the question will be
not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much
have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you
saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and
served, not how much were you honored." |
| -- Nathan C. Schaeffer |
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| "What is the meaning of human life, or of
organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a
religion. |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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