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• The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Silly, Creativity, Ideas

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

  George Jones

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.143, Dell

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• If you don't ask, you don't get.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Positive, Positivity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Important, Inquiry, May

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

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• Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Issues, Feminism

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• I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

  Sheryl Lee

  Past, Done, Introspective

  "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthman, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.

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• I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

  Interview With Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• The moment we find the reason behind an emotion … the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

  Gloria Steinem

  Memories, Wall, Answers

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• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Training, Important, No Hope

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• You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Judgment, Motive

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• Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

  Max Weber

  Science, Fulfillment, Raises

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.298, University of Chicago Press

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• Even the genius ask questions.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Doubt

  Song: Me Against The World

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• I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

  Douglas Cardinal

  Machines, Answers, Mess

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• Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

  Lani Guinier

  Inspirational, Knowing, People

  Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin (1997). “Becoming gentlemen: women, law school, and institutional change”, Beacon Pr

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• The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.

  Wolfhart Pannenberg

  Religious, Jesus, Strong

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• Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

  Simon Sinek

  Understanding, Listening, Asking

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2012

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Wrong Answers, Way, Computer

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• A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

  Leon Festinger

  Confidence, Men, Psychology

  Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Change, Christian, Unique

  Helmut Thielicke (1970). “How modern should theology be?”

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• If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Curiosity, Important, Holy

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• Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Words Of Wisdom, Asking

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• 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

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Stress, Thinking

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2013

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• Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

  Chip R. Bell

  Listening, Curiosity, Marketing

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.69, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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