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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

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Neil Postman

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Paul Newman

The anwser is no untill you ask the question.

Mark Tidwell

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Paul A. Samuelson

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.

Jeremy Naguib

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't.".

Oswald Chambers

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Christian Nevell Mistinguett

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Adolf Berle

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Guy Debord

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

Aaron Howard

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.

Ken Burns

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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