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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one. -- Oscar Wilde
I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate. -- Gary Goodyear
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. -- Nicholas Negroponte
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. -- Haruki Murakami
There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question. -- Behdad Sami
And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know? -- Gayle Forman
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow -- Stephen Covey
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people. -- PJ Harvey
Never ask a bore a question. -- Mason Cooley
I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions. -- Lil Wayne
I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. -- Kathy Ireland
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. -- e. e. cummings
Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions. -- Lindsey Graham
For your information, I would like to ask a question. -- Samuel Goldwyn
The best project is one that asks a novel question. -- Walter Gilbert
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. -- Joey Adams
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. -- Dan Savage
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer. -- Anthony Eden
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. -- Diane Sawyer
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. -- Trevor Phillips
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job. -- Dick Cheney
If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know. -- Geraldine Ferraro
You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word. -- Larry King
I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?' -- K. A. Applegate
I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered. -- Apollonius of Tyana
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism. -- D. A. Carson
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion. -- A. N. Wilson
That's a question mark everyone's asking -- Bruce Grobbelaar
Effective management always means asking the right question. -- Robert Heller
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability. -- Michael J. Gelb
If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question. -- John Major
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking -- Martin Bashir
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. -- Martin Bashir
Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?" -- Gene Roddenberry
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? -- Irving Layton
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. -- Richard Saul Wurman
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. -- Albert Camus
The question we should be asking. Would I want to be sponsored by me? -- Jeff Olson
The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question. -- Tony Robbins
Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. -- Deepak Chopra
By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work. -- Robert Kiyosaki
What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question? -- Ruta Sepetys
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? -- Michael Moore
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. -- Paul Scofield
People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? -- Ysabeau S. Wilce
You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life -- Tariq Ramadan
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. -- Raymond Geuss
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. -- Andre Malraux
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now... -- Tim Ferriss
Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to. -- Wayne Coyne
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? -- C. Wright Mills
Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know. -- Paulo Coelho
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. -- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. -- Brunonia Barry
As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me? -- Tim Ferriss
I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?. -- Shane Claiborne
One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. -- Florynce Kennedy
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. -- Randy Pausch
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. -- E. M. Forster
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. -- Edward de Bono
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? -- William Gaddis
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. -- Peter Drucker
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you. -- Ken Follett
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. -- Oscar Wilde
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence. -- Paul Kurtz
Instead of asking, â??what do I want from life?,â? a more powerful question is, â??what does life want from me? -- Eckhart Tolle
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. -- Paul Tillich
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' -- Henry Miller
U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this? -- Jay Leno
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?' -- Margaret J. Wheatley
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. -- David Whyte
Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?' -- Craig Kilborn
"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices." -- Steve Pavlina
I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions. -- Ken Jeong
If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go. -- Jim Wallis
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question. -- Phil Klay
I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change? -- Mairead Corrigan
If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?' -- Mardy Grothe
People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?' -- Russell Crowe
Now you know I'm a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I'll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
But what if Shakespeare"? and Hamlet"? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be? -- Gayle Forman
I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?""At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke. -- Scott Lynch
It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie. -- Kristen Wiig
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know? -- Candace Cameron Bure
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why? -- Darrell Issa
Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it. -- Noam Chomsky
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know? -- Candace Cameron Bure
The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?' -- Tim Ferriss
The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy. -- Eleanor Brown
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?' -- Meir Soloveichik
Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?' -- Andrew Lo
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now? -- Peter Thiel
All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. -- Joseph Campbell
Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question. -- Denis Waitley

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