Question Quotes

• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Nature
  • Question
  • Suicide

• You either believe what you think or you question it. There’s no other choice.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Believe
  • Question

• There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Question
  • Minutes

• It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Ridiculous

• It's a moral question.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Question

• Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • House
  • Rule
  • Who

• The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Question
  • Challenge
  • Social group

• My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

  

  Paul Greengard
  • Question
  • Philosophy
  • Solved

• The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Question
  • Crime
  • Liberties

• Such a possibility raises a question: if one dares to let one’s traditional and inherited Christian understanding of God be converted under the influence of Jesus, can one still be considered a Christian? Or, conversely, if one refuses to let one’s traditional understanding be converted under the influence of Jesus, can one still be considered a Christian? Be that as it may, growing numbers of us are coming to realize this simple truth: for the world to migrate away from violence, our God must migrate away from violence.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Christian
  • Influence of Jesus

• At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Results
  • Dedication
  • Activities

• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Happiness
  • Goals
  • Excitement

• If you want to ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Women
  • Question
  • Lead

• This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Joy
  • Fire
  • Weather

• Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams?

  

  Nancy Holder
  • Question
  • Dreams
  • Consciousness

• One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • Something
  • Making
  • Pleased

• The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Good
  • Relation
  • Considered

• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Science
  • Question

• You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Perfect
  • Intimacy
  • Each Other

• A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Question
  • Exclamation

• When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.

  

  Jorge Ramos
  • Power
  • Question
  • Consequences

• Look for the answer inside your question.

  

  Rumi
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Inside

• I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Question
  • Wonder
  • Pictures

• A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Question
  • Jesus
  • Homeless

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