Questions

(158 votes)   Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(150 votes)   I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(149 votes)   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.

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(148 votes)   To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(145 votes)   No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(132 votes)   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.

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(125 votes)   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?

Abraham J. Heschel
1907-1972, Polish educator, Author

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(114 votes)   If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(114 votes)   Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(110 votes)   Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Engineer's Motto

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(108 votes)   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 fund doing it?

Charles Connolly
American Psychologist

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(103 votes)   Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(99 votes)   A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Lord Darling

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(94 votes)   Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

Doug Horton

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(83 votes)   The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Steve Miller

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