Question Quotes - page 2

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' (Sigmund Freud)
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. View quote
Margaret Mead
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. View quote
Margaret Mead
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. View quote
John Cage
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. (Norman Mailer)
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. View quote
Anne Rice
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question. View quote
Lily Tomlin
What you are is a question only you can answer. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way. View quote
Ernie Banks
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? View quote
Gregory Bateson
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. View quote
Leon Trotsky
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. (Natalie Clifford Barney)
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. View quote
W. C. Fields
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. View quote
John Tukey