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Edward Hodnett

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

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Arianna Huffington, born Arianna Stassinopoulos

The silence in our lives is under assault on all fronts: roaring jets and blasting Walkmans, numbing elevator music and blaring headline news. It’s hard to genuflect to the beat of MTV. We are wired, plugged in, constantly catered to and cajoled. After a while we become terrified out of the silence, unaware of what it has to offer. We drown out the simple question of God with the simplistic sound-bites of man.

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

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Douglas MacArthur

The great question is: can war be outlawed? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

Civilization | Question | War | Wisdom |

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James Russell Lowell

Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common sense is always: "What is it good for?' a question which would abolish the rose, and be triumphantly answered by the cabbage.

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Paul A. Meglitsch, fully Paul Allen Meglitsch

Nearly every discovery in science has come as the result of providing a new question rather than a new answer.

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Maurice Nicoll

All ideas require preparation for their meaning to engage the soul... There is no question whether they are true or not. One buys for oneself. There is no absolute truth. All truth is relative - relative to one’s needs, relative to one’s position in psychological space.

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Publius Syrus

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Question | Wisdom |

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Shōzō Tanaka

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers, but of the human heart.

Care | Heart | Question | Wisdom |

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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Carol Adrienne

Our personal question about our life’s purpose may very well be the tip as well as the foundation of the collective iceberg – part of the much larger question of where do we go from here? If we consider these individual longings in light of systems thinking, perhaps we can see them, not as isolated, narcissistic musings, but as equivalent to the DNA of our soul, the generative driver of evolution itself.

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Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe

The answer is "I love you". The question is unimportant.

Love | Question | Wisdom |

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Peter Abelard, Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailard; French: Pierre Abélard

The first key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning… for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Question | Truth | Wisdom |

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Julian Baggini

If the meaning of life is not a mystery, if leading meaningful lives is within the power of all of us, then we do not need to ask the question `What’s it all about?’ in despair. We can look around us and see the many ways in which life can be meaningful. We can see the value of happiness while accepting that it is not everything, which will make it easier for us at those times when it eludes us. We can learn to appreciate the pleasure of life without becoming slaves to appetites which can never be satisfied. We can see the value of success, while not interpreting that too narrowly, so that we can appreciate the project of striving to become what we want to be as well as the more visible, public signs of success. We can see the value of seizing the day, without leading us into a desperate scramble to grasp the ungraspable moment. We can appreciate the value in helping others lead meaningful lives, too, without thinking that altruism demands everything we have. And finally, we can recognize the value of love, as perhaps the most powerful motivator to do anything at all.

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John M. Wilson, fully John Moulder Wilson

Are you willing to think? Consider carefully, for the answer to that question will largely determine your success or failure in life. If you develop your judgment, use it. Exercise your power of judgment as often as you can, for the first rule of good judgment is practice. The functions of your mind, no less than the muscles of your body, receive their strength through repeated use.

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