? 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.
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
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.
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
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?
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
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.
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
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.