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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  Nancy Willard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Curiosity, Questioning, Teaching, Inspiration

• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learning, Hope, Questioning, Living, Science

• The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Doubting, Questioning

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  Gabrielle Reece

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Questioning

• Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning

• If you can do it then why do it?

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning

• Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning

• Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Questioning

• What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning

• And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

  Tony Greig

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning, Reasoning

• I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

  Tommy Franks

  Topics in America

  Tags in Questioning

• I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn’t a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

  Timothy Hutton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peoples, Questioning

• After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

  Ernst Toller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Serious, Questioning

• There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

  James Nathan Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning, Conversation

• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning, Mankind

• For every why he had a wherefore.

  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning

• 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.

  Martha Graham

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Questioning

• The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

  Arthur Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absence, Questioning

• If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

  John Lubbock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt, Questioning

• 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.

  John Cage

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Questioning