Question Quotes

• What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Mind
  • Influence

• When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that Latinos didn't want to speak Spanish. You would ask a question, only to be answered in English.

  

  Raul de Molina
  • Chicago
  • Answered
  • Latinos

• Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Wise
  • Genius
  • Philosophers

• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Children
  • School
  • Periods

• Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Detail
  • Dressing
  • Accessories

• If you ask another question like that we'll just make up a silly story.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Question
  • Story
  • Make

• Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religion
  • Answer
  • Purpose Of Life

• I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • Question
  • Theater
  • Answer

• The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Question
  • Gave

• Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Good
  • Education
  • Discipline

• [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Question
  • Joy
  • Opinions

• Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Analysts

• I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!

  

  Bill Geist
  • Question
  • Dancing
  • Grilling

• My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

  

  Rene Magritte
  • Mean
  • Painting
  • Mystery

• The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Question
  • Ignorance
  • Ask

• I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?

  

  Nick Saban
  • Question
  • Win
  • Lose

• The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'

  

  Wilbert J. McKeachie
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Answer

• Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

  

  Plato
  • Question
  • Tough
  • Consideration

• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  

  Josh Mandel
  • Society
  • Question
  • Value

• To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Kids
  • Quality
  • Adults

• The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

  

  Wesley J. Smith
  • Question
  • Human
  • Morality

• The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

  

  Jorge Ramos
  • Power
  • Question
  • Journalists

• Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Question
  • Pain

• If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Meeting
  • Anarchy
  • Aggression

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