Question Quotes - page 3

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. (John Tukey)
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to. View quote
Brian Greene
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? View quote
Richard Courant
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. View quote
Ruby Dee
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. (Daniel Webster)
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. View quote
Ayn Rand
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. View quote
Tennessee Williams
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
Effective management always means asking the right question. View quote
Robert Heller
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. (Adnan Oktar)
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. View quote
David Attenborough
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee