#question

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

#answer #asking #attempting #cannot #existence

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#enough #had #had enough #itself #life

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ask #i #learn #never #only

We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job. ↗

— Brit Hume

#abroad #bureaus #foreign #getting #important

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. ↗

— David Hume

#any #delusion #education #found #good

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#answers #ask #backbone #courses #doubt

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ask #doctrine #false #himself #honest

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

#marriage #riches #dreams

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#finding #itself #learn #learning #looking

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them. ↗

— Carol Alt

#anybody #could #curry #down #einstein