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"A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense." »Erich Fromm
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"The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man" »Wilmarth S. Lewis
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"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question." »B. J. Gupta
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"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species." »Desmond Morris
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"Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied." »Kedar Joshi
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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like." »Jackie Mason
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." »Jeseph Joubert
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"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." »E. W. Dijkstra
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question." »Tennessee Williams
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"It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together." »Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once." »Frank A. Clark
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"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." »Fletcher Knebel
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"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses." »Elizabeth Taylor
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"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it." »Jane Wagner
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"Flexibility is one of the main roads leading to happiness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them." »John Ruskin
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"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?" »Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here"
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"Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates." »Dave Barry
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"Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails." »H. L. Mencken
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"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown." »Charles De Gaulle
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"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." »Chinese Proverb
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." »Edward Abbey
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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem." »Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
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"Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association." »Saint Augustine
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"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems." »S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
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