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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Publilius Syrus
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A wise man's question contains half the answer.  -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire
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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
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -Bertrand Russell
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There are two sides to every question.

Protagoras
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Thorstein Veblen
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. -Stephen Jay Gould
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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

David Reisman
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison
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So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae). -Terence
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Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.

Omaha Proverb
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber
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To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm. -Tom C. Clark
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Tom Stoppard
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Ernest Gaines
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Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King Jr.
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Aristotle
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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli
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The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. -John F. Kennedy
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.

Thomas Jefferson
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson
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Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith. -Thomas Jefferson
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. -Douglas Adams
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Sir Francis Bacon
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For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon
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A prudent question is one half of wisdom. -Sir Francis Bacon
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