Quotes
Quotes about Quest
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.
Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
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?
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
