Question Quotes - page 5

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon)
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. View quote
John Tukey
The great question is: from which country shall we copy the Constitution? View quote
Lima Barreto
Don't question your wife's judgment; look who she married. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Never question the miraculous when it happens. View quote
Ray Bradbury
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? View quote
David Hilbert
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. View quote
Douglas Adams
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. View quote
Stephen Douglas
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. View quote
Michel Foucault
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway and I would disapprove of it. View quote
Colm Tóibín
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible And my answer to that is, no they do not. View quote
Milton Friedman
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' View quote
Christopher Hitchens
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. View quote
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? View quote
Tony Campolo
The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities. View quote
Robertson Davies
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. (Peter Ustinov)
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough. View quote
Angela Merkel
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. View quote
Toni Morrison
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. View quote
Rene Magritte