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~ History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. ~

W. H. Auden

~ It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ~

Joseph Joubert

~ He who frames the question wins the debate. ~

Randall Terry

~ The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. ~

Peter Hammill

~ Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. ~

Charles J. Ingersoll

~ He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers ~

African Proverb

~ Think for yourself and question authority. ~

Timothy Leary

~ The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. ~

Will Durant

~ The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~

Bishop Mandell Creighton

~ There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. ~

David Hume

~ Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. ~

Freeman Thomas

~ The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. ~

Woodrow Wilson

~ When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ~

Plato

~ Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ~

Hal Borland

~ The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death. ~

Daniel Petrie

~ My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons. ~

Joseph Barbera

~ The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader. ~

David Prowse

~ The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. ~

Peter Abelard,

~ If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration. ~

John Dingell

~ Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ~

Woody Allen

~ A prudent question is one half the wisdom. ~

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~ Politics ... was at least half a question of proper stage management. And the higher the stakes, the more critical that management became. ~

DAVID WEBER

~ In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other. ~

Mark Twain

~ A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. ~

André Malraux

~ If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. ~

Solomon Ortiz

~ The primary tool of science is skepticism, whose light shrivels unquestioning faith. ~

Mike Huben

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