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Question Authority... and the Authorities will question you!

Question Authority... and the Authorities will question you!

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Ralph Gerard

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our

Charm is a way of getting a "yes" without having asked any clear question.

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Hodding Carter

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

J. Bronowski [The Ascent of Man]

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

Horace

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Elie Wiesel

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

Bishop Mandell Creighton

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

Albert Schweitzer

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Neil Postman

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