It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
~By Freeman Thomas ~
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
~By Howard Staunton ~
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
~By Kurt Russell ~
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
~By Max Beckmann ~
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
~By Ang Lee ~
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
~By Robert Half ~
I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
~By Stacy Keach ~
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
~By Elena Kagan ~
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
~By William Shatner ~
Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
~By Birch Bayh ~
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
~By Tracy Chapman ~
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Great questions make great reporting.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.
~By Louis Stokes ~
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
~By Tony Robbins ~
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
~By Dennis Prager ~
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
~By Paul Haggis ~
Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.
~By David Wu ~
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
~By Jude Law ~
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
~By Zakk Wylde ~
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
~By Joan Collins ~
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
~By Tony Campolo ~
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.
~By Brian Greene ~
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.
~By Allan Sloan ~
I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
~By Sue Johanson ~
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
~By Tommy Chong ~
My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
~By Brian Lamb ~
For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
~By Brian May ~
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
~By John Locke ~
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
~By Barry McGuire ~
Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.
~By Rob Corddry ~
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
~By Alan Dundes ~
One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
~By Janez Drnovsek ~
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~By Emma Watson ~
So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
~By Leon Kass ~
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
~By James C. Maxwell ~
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
~By Edgar Cayce ~
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
~By Kiana Tom ~
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
~By Lukas Foss ~
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
~By Michael Medved ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~By James Allen ~
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
~By David Kay ~
Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
~By Zach Wamp ~
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
~By James Thurber ~
One can always debate questions back and forth.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
~By John Searle ~
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
~By Joey Adams ~
It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
~By Vicente Aleixandre ~
Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
~By Michael Keaton ~
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