"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."

Santayana, George on questions
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"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

Robbins, Anthony on questions
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"There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions."

Unknown, Source on questions
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"When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get."

Unknown, Source on questions   

"The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves."

Unknown, Source on questions   

"An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer."

Unknown, Source on questions   

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

Unknown, Source on questions   

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions."

Unknown, Source on questions   

"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."

Voltaire on questions
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"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

Voltaire on questions
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"To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question."

Webster, S. Tobin on questions   

"Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential."

Robbins, Anthony on questions   

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."

Motto, Engineer's on questions
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

Mahfouz, Naguib on questions
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"In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature."

Sade, Marquis De on sex   

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

Bacon, Francis on questions
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Bacon, Francis on questions   

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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on questions
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"Every clarification breeds new questions."

Bloch, Arthur on questions   

"... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?"

Bower, Jim on questions   

"For every why he had a wherefore."

Butler, Samuel on questions
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"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"

Connolly, Charles on questions
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on questions
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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

Decouvertes on questions
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"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on questions
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"If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems."

Hodnett, Edward on questions   

"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

Heschel, Abraham J. on questions
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"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."

Jay, Anthony on questions   

"It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries."

Palmer, Vance on definition   

"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."

Shenstone, William on lies and lying
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"Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible."

Lapham, Lewis H. on murder   

"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret."

Wilde, Oscar on sin   

"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance."

Vico, Giambattista on decadence   

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on conservatives   

"Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life."

Unknown, Source on class   

"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."

Bagnold, Enid on marriage
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"Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven."

Unknown, Source on money   

"A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men."

Mencken, H. L. on physics   

"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on conservatives   

"As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too."

Johnson, Samuel on extravagance