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Quotes including the word “question”.

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Bataille

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Mario Benedetti

I know I will love you without questions, I know you will love me without answers.

W. Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

W. Burroughs

“I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Anton Chekhov

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Joseph Conrad

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Walt Disney

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Eminescu

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.

Benjamin Franklin

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”

Galileo Galilei

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

Jean Genet

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Hermann Hesse

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Ionesco

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

James Joyce

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Primo Levi

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

Levi-Strauss

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Norman Mailer

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Raymond Queneau

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Rajendra

There's no question of practising law here, it's almost a farce. I often have to suspend my sense of reality when I enter court.

Rilke

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

Saramago

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Shakespeare

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Skinner

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

Henry Thoreau

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Voltaire

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

L. Wittgenstein

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.