Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Topics:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the topics)
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "Q" » Questioning
«The power to question is the basis of all human progress.»
«There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.»
Author: James Nathan Miller
| About:
Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
breath, conversation, provided, worthless
«The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.»
«The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.»
«There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.»
«The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Absence,
Questioning
| Keywords:
inexorably, precise, The Job
«The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best»
«The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Politicians,
Politics,
Questioning
| Keywords:
coated, coating, eager, ethical, ethical standards, industrial, industrial waste, national, piece, Politicians, President, revealing, slime, standards, television, The Job, The Question
«The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Psychology,
Questioning
| Keywords:
definite, fashionable, human activity, phenomena, physiological, psychological
«The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute and ultimate?»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Questioning
| Keywords:
absolute, final, imperfection, The Question, ultimate
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
