Quotes with questions-it

Quotes 101 till 120 of 142.

  • Hugh Trevor-Roper The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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  • Robert Browning The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Arthur Miller The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Alan Dershowitz The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • James Baldwin The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Simon Sinek The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
    Simon Sinek
    British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant (1973 - )
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  • James Baldwin The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
    Original: Le savant n'est pas l'homme qui fournit les vraies réponses; c'est celui qui pose les vraies questions.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Antony Jay The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Bill Hicks The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
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    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Samuel Johnson There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Burgess Owens There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Albert Einstein To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • B. F. Skinner Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Carl Sandburg Under the summer roses
    When the flagrant crimson
    Lurks in the dusk
    Of the wild red leaves,
    Love, with little hands,
    Comes and touches you
    With a thousand memories,
    And asks you
    Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
    Under the Harvest Moon (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bo Bennett Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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