Quotes of: Right-question Keyword

We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.

Life

Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.

Chinese

One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want ...

Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope th...

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the ho...

Beatrice and Virgil

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't r...

Sliver of Truth

Once I accepted my own transexuality, then it became obvious to me that the question "Why do transsexuals exist?" is not a matter of pure curiosity, but rather an act of nonacceptance, as it invariably occurs in the absence of asking the reciprocal q...

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Stan: Why didn't you ask them any questions? Vinny Gambini: Huh? Ask who questions? Bill: The witnesses! You know you could have asked questions, didn't you, Vin? Stan: Damn it, Vinnie! Maybe if you'd put up some kind of a fight, you could have gotte...

My Cousin Vinny

The right thing done at the wrong time will not bring about the right results.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

If we reward our children for doing the right things, or discipline for intentionally doing the wrong things, then we might be viewed as doing the right thing. On the other hand, we (or parents) might not fully grasp the right thing—as the “right...

A Father and Future Felon

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . ...

Robert F. Kennedy

They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

Dead Fire

Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics

'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.

James Fenton

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late