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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...

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Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

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This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is t...

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Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive f...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investi...

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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questi...

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In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I j...

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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'There were so ...

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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...

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Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Should I ask everyone the question that should not have been asked? Or should I turning up to the sk...

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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask ques...

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When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you ...

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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibili...

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If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscio...

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Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"Mort thought for a mom...

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There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; ...

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "Wha...

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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.Tom Robbins wro...

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul...

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

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You should not ask questions without knowledge.

By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my praye...

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Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

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

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

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William S. BurroughsWith William Burroughs: A Report From The Bunker

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperat...

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He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

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Yōko OgawaThe Housekeeper and the Professor

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of th...

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Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out...

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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single bo...

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The question that sometime's drive's me hazy, am i or the other's crazy?

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and ...

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Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people...

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Alfred North WhiteheadDialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...

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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth m...

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There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with...

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So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this ...

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How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-ha...

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It ...

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We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from o...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should al...

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C. S. LewisThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from cele...

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How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to...

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

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions peopl...

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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. A mystery is a phenomenon that people ...

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...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague t...

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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

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Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they’re asking me questions.' He ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Not all questions can be answered.

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in th...

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All my life, until today, I have been content to ask questions. All the while knowing that the real ...

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It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact wi...

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There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty...

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble t...

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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any...

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those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, ...

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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's n...

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during th...

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Are you asking because you really want an answer?

He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questio...

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Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better un...

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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easi...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following que...

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But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (boxer)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (musician)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (musician)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (musician)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly t...

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Jack Johnson (musician)Curious George: Jack Johnson and Friends - Guitar Recorded Version

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevan...

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