Quotes of Inquire - somelinesforyou

“ Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ 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? ”

- Charles Connolly

“ A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ”

- Joey Adams

“ The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking. ”

- George Wald

“ Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? ”

- Bo Bennett

“ Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that. ”

- Nigel Short

“ Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere. ”

- Karel Capek

“ Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path… ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there… ”

- Ingrid Bengis

“ Before desiring something passionately one should inquire into the happiness of the man who possesses it. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge. ”

- John Milton

“ America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" But "What can he do?". ”

- Unknown

“ Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ”

- Horace

“ If you don't ask, you don't get. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate — that's my philosophy. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ On the occasion of' every accident that befalls you… inquire what power you have for turning it to use. ”

- Epictetus

“ One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ People can be divided into two classes: Those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still and inquire why wasn't it done the other way? ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these, for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. ”

- Rembrandt

“ Ye have not, because ye ask not. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Do you spell it with a V or a W?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The human race is divided into two classes — those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?". ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ”

- Lillian Smith

“ Every clarification breeds new questions. ”

- Arthur Bloch

“ My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? ”

- Scott Adams
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