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Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson

Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson

Every clarification breeds new questions. — Arthur Bloch

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

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. - Paul Broca

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. — Paul Broca

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. — Arthur C. Clarke

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. - Janis Joplin

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. — Janis Joplin

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. — Brian Tracy

Question everything generally thought to be obvious. — Dieter Rams

Questions are infinitely superior to answers. — Dan Sullivan

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. — Neil Postman

To create, one must first question everything. - Eileen Gray

To create, one must first question everything. — Eileen Gray

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. — Jack Vance

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. - Indira Gandhi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. — Indira Gandhi

Short Raises Questions Quotes

  • There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. — Richard P. Feynman
  • Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. — Max Weber
  • Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions. — Slavoj Žižek
  • Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. — Voltaire
  • It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. — Patrick Rothfuss
  • The thought: A logical inquiry — Gottlob Frege
  • To every answer you can find a new question. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day. — Isaac Mashman
  • It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. — Joseph Joubert
  • What are we doing here, that is the question. — Samuel Beckett

Raises Questions Image Quotes

Raises questions quote Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.

Raises Questions Meaning Quotes

The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct. — Solomon Asch

All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology. — G. B. Caird

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that?? — Jodi Picoult

Raises questions quote The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

... For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change. — Walter Cunningham

What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking 'what' and 'why' when surrounded by an infinite sky? — Ron James

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised. — Rene Magritte

Raises questions quote The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. — C. S. Lewis

How You Were Raised Quotes

Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George. — J. K. Rowling

I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very... You know, that's how I was raised. Like super-progressive. — Jake Gyllenhaal

The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning. It manifested itself in crazy ways. Parents would try raising their daughters in blue rooms with GI Joe and try raising their sons in pink rooms with Barbie to see what would happen, and they were shocked. — Rush Limbaugh

Raises questions quote Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life. — Michelle Obama

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people. — Theophilus London

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real. — Bill Hicks

I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. — Haruki Murakami

I Was Raised Quotes

It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war. — Robin Olds

I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit. — Steven Wright

I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous resilience. — Chamath Palihapitiya

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough. — Angela Merkel

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia E. Butler

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders. — Pat Conroy

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K. — Maajid Nawaz

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee. - Kristen Johnston

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee. — Kristen Johnston

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. — Oprah Winfrey

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously. — Assata Shakur

Raise Up Quotes

The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. — Saddam Hussein

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army. — Robert E. Lee

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move. — Daniel Smith

I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open up the pitch...The one who has the ball, is the master of the game...Thats the school of Joan Vilà, of Albert Benaiges, of Johan Cruijff, of Pep Guardiola — Xavi

I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A. — Jake Paul

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. — Malala Yousafzai

Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate. — Trevor Noah

Raising Quotes

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. - Rumi

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. — Rene Descartes

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! — James Connolly

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. — Ann Landers

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. — Lewis Grizzard

You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important. — Joel Osteen

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. — Ramakrishna

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried. — Merle Haggard

Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. — Zig Ziglar

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More Raises Questions Quotes

So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised. — Carl Bernstein

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state? — Robert Nozick

When we raise children, we don't exactly know what situations they will face. We don't spoon feed them the answer to every possible question. Rather we teach them how to find the answer themselves. AI, with its superior intelligence, will find the righteous answer to many of the questions it is bound to face on its own. — Mo Gawdat

I’m so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like, ‘Why is he so big?' — PewDiePie

The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore. — Thanissaro Bhikkhu

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. — Franz Liszt

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled. — Mary Midgley

You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions — Jacque Fresco

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. — Tina Fey

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions. — Sebastiao Salgado

An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more. — Thelma Golden

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff. — William Thorsell

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again. — Thomas Sowell

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it? — Mary Blakely

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior. — Thomas Merton

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind. — Robert Kennedy

Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingl y on the Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God's Word with whomever they met! This could change the world. — Ken Ham

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama? — Juan Williams

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. — Albert Einstein

(1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary. — Fuller Albright

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness. — Nigel Calder

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. — Michael Haneke

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth? — Mark Bittman

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology. — Michael Sandel

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. — George Stigler

The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives. — Cornel West

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. — Will Durant

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully. — Harry A. Blackmun

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too. — Aristotle

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. — Theodor Adorno

[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable. — Terence McKenna

People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?' — Bill Gates

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised. — Woodrow Wilson

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life. — Sidney Poitier

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores. — John Searle

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