Quotes of: Question Keyword

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Julian Baggini

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Karen Hughes

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

Lisa Randall

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

C. S. Lewis

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

Dan James

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

James Cameron

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Joan Kirner

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

Colin Farrell

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

Jorge Ramos

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that at...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation...

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satis...

My Secret Garden

Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they though...

Mondo et autres histoires

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victim...

Salman Rushdie

(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well - but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the mor...

Celine Kiernan

Frederick: You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibl...

Hannah and Her Sisters

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Disputed Questions Virtues

So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Thom Mayne