Quotes
Quotes about Quest
That questionable superfluity--small beer.
The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.
Ignorance never settles a question.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.
I follow up the quest
Despite of Day and Night and Death and Hell.
One unquestioned text we read,
All doubt beyond, all fear above;
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed
Can burn or blot it--God is love.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
The only road, the sure road--to unquestioned credit and a sound financial condition is the exact and punctual fulfilment of every pecuniary obligation, public and private, according to its letter and spirit.
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?
Nay, who but infants question in such wise,
'T was one of my most intimate enemies.
The more we arg'ed the question the more we did n't agree.
No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
? John Bartlett, compHer reasoning is full of tricks
And butterfly suggestions,
I know no point to which she sticks;
She begs the simplest questions,
And, when her premises are strong
She always draws her inference wrong.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."
Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
Begging the question.
It was not a question of being cheerful, rather of shedding the shameful rotting stuff that was himself by making that inner nub which cried I, I, I into the centre of something free of the agony of thought
Why did God allow evil to exist? A question not to be asked. Without evil there could be no freedom of choice
