Question Quotes

You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.

~ Gemma Malley

The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.

~ Vikrant Datta

Next time I will ...From now on I will ...- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

~ Hugh Prather

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

~ Jeff Bezos

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

~ Walter Kirn

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

~ Jack Kemp

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

~ Laurence J. Peter

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

~ Rick Perlstein

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

~ Edsger Dijkstra

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

~ David Smith

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

~ Pierre Curie

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

~ Werner Heisenberg

Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

~ Al Goldstein

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

~ George Foreman

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

~ Gray Scott

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.

~ Michael Specter

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

~ Voltaire

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

~ Paul Tillich

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

~ Youssou N'dour

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

~ Mircea Eliade

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

~ Wendell Berry

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.

~ W. C. Fields

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

~ Thomas Sowell

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

~ John Hume

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

~ Indira Gandhi

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

~ Oswald Chambers

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

~ Natan Sharansky

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

~ Paul Ryan

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

~ Augustin Matata Ponyo

I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

~ Ren Ng

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

~ Peter Abelard

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

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

~ Marilyn Hacker

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

~ Antony Sher

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

~ Harold Prince

'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

~ William Julius Wilson

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

~ Will Thomas