Q Quotes
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“Question with boldness even the existence of a god.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.”
“Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.”
Source: The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson
“Question."
"Yes," Candace asked expectantly, eyes fixed on the dark street ahead.
"Have you ever had to chose sides between a friend and a boyfriend?"
Candace nodded.
"Which side are you suppose to pick?"
"The right one."
"What if they're both right?"
"They're not."
"But they are," Melody insisted. "That's the problem."
"No." Candace slowly rolled past a police cruiser. "They both think they're right. But who do you think is right? Which side represents the thing you think is worth fighting for?"
Melody glanced out the window as though she was expecting the answer to be revealed on a neighbor's lawn. Every house except hers had the lights turned off. "I dunno."
"You do," Candace insisted. "You just don't have the courage to be honest with yourself. Because then you'd have to do the thing you don't want to do, and you hate doing anything that's hard. Which is why you gave up singing and why you have no life and why you've always been a -"
"Um okay! Can we get back to the part where you were sounding like Oprah?"
"I'm just saying, Melly, what would you do if you weren't afraid? That's your answer. That's your side." She turned into the circular driveway and put the SUV in PARK. "And if you don't choose it, you're lying to yourself and everyone around you." She opened the door and grabbed her purse. "Oprah out!"
The door slammed behind her.”
Source: Monster High
“Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.”
Source: Harlow
“Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point of
egoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?
Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-
oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but only
as far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself.
And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,
preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body I
mean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family,
tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name and
shape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither body
nor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.
Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybody
he meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am the
world, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es-
tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfish
means to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the part
against the whole.
I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj”
“Question your answers, Truth has no anger”
“Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.”
“Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.”
“Question your rulers
when they seek wars in foreign lands,
when their priorities appear to be serving other than the national interest,
when their citizens’ welfare doesn’t make it to their top list...
(...)
Question them and do not be afraid, for they live the good life from your hard work and sacrifices that have brought them to their thrones of power.
Question them and also yourselves, for if their actions defy their promises to serve, and their deeds challenge your moral and human values, you should stand up for what is just and right.”
Source: Rebel Thoughts of Wisdom: Inspiring Conscious Change for Personal & Collective Growth
“Question your tea spoons.”
“Question your thoughts, because not all thoughts are your own.”
“Question your thoughts.
Question your stories.
Question your assumptions.
Question your opinions.
Question your conclusions.
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
The keys to freedom are in your hands.
Use them.”
“Question yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you desire to live tomorrow.”
“Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.”
“QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?”
“Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?”
“Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.”
“Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?”
“Question: If there were two of you which one would win?”
“Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."”
“Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop?
Answer: That is bird poop, too.”
Source: Timequake
“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction
“Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.”
“Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn't taste as sweet.”
Source: Untitled
“Question: Why is that MC's be wack
And major labels wanna sign that crap?
A-yo...funk that!”
“Questionar se você tem liberdade é o começo da liberdade. Perguntar-se por que você tem liberdade é o início da civilização.”
Source: Monge Cientista
“Questionei-me quanto achariam os raptores que ele valia; quanto achariam os meus pais que eu valia e interroguei-me sobre se o valor das pessoas estava ligado a coisas como a bondade, a utilidade ou a disponibilidade para ajudar as pessoas menos afortunadas. Achei que era provável que o meu valor fosse superior quando era criança.”
Source: When God Was a Rabbit
“Questioner: Can one read others minds?
Ramana Maharshi: Where are others apart from one‘s own Self?”
Source: Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
“Questioner: What‘s the best thing I can do for my awakening?
Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.”
Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
“Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.”
“Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.”
“Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination”
“Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.”
“Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.”
“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Questioning is the piety of thought.”
“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'”
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.”
“Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.”
“Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Questioning the government is easy, what takes character is to be the solution.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Questioning the morals, motives, and actions of a nation-state is not an expression of hatred for it or its predominant religion.”
“Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.”
“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.”
Source: Globalization: The Human Consequences
“Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.”
“Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.”