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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 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?
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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"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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"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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"True nobility is in being superior to your previous self." »Hindustani Proverb
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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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"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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"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 reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice." »Doug Larson
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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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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives." »James Joyce
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"It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record." »John Blasik
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"Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered." »Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
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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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"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos." »Stephen Jay Gould
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"We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time." »Fontenelle
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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich
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"There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life." »B. J. Gupta
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"He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever." »Tom J. Connelly
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"There are those things that we find ourselves at ease to do in private,and as such form the most potent of our human nature.However such practices are,habitually,not of a virtuous parturition.We must find ourselves,in more ways than once,troubled by such practices,much concerning their unfittingness.When such happenings are fostered,they become fixative,and their most dangerous form comes when the mind is deluded,slowly as it has been learnt, into believing the previous to be right and acceptable." »lot chakonza
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"There are those things that we find ourselves at ease to do in private,and as such form the most potent of our human nature.However such practices are,habitually,not of a virtuous parturition.We must find ourselves,in more ways than once,troubled by such practices,much concerning their unfittingness.When such happenings are fostered,they become fixative,and their most dangerous form comes when the mind is deluded,slowly as it has been learnt, into believing the previous to be right and acceptable." »lot chakonza
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"The question is not what you look at but what you see." »Thoreau
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