Question and Problem

"It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate."

Joseph Joubert

Question and Problem

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."

Lois McMaster Bujold

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."

George Marshall

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Alexander Hamilton

Health and Alcohol

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Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The way we see the problem is the problem."

Stephen Covey "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Don't buy problems, they're giving them away for free."

Barbara Mikkelson

Question and Problem

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The engineer`s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is."

George C. Beakley "Careers in engineering and technology‎"

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.13 (Number of Voters: 8)

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."

Michael Burke

Manners and Ethics

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Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."

Stuart's Law of Retroaction

Forgiveness

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Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."

Jonathan Winters

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

Anthony J. D`Angelo "The College Blue Book"

Question and Problem

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

Piet Hein

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

Albert Einstein

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

John Steinbeck

Intellect, Judgement

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Various

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem."

Phil Donahue

Life and Death

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."

Douglas Everett

Education

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Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."

John J. Plomp

Family and Loneliness

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Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What you are is a question only you can answer."

Lois McMaster Bujold

Human

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."

David Reisman

Question and Problem

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Obstacles are what a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

Henry Ford

Dreams and Desires

Question and Problem

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Poor people have problems; rich people have challenges."

Click if you know the author

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Richness and Money

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Let problems make you better, not bitter."

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Good and Evil

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Chinese Proverbs

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Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician."

Eugene Ionesco

Politics and Diplomacy

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Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them."

David Gerrold

Human

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Knowledge, Ignorance

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Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

Jacob Bronowski "The Ascent of Man"

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

John W. Gardner

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."

Levi-Strauss-Claude

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

Louis Leo Holtz

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it."

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Life and Death

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.30 (Number of Voters: 10)

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

David Cronenberg "Cronenberg on Cronenberg"

Life and Death

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 8)

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

Ann Landers

Question and Problem

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"By doubting we come at truth."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Question and Problem

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."

Gloria Steinem "Moving Beyond Words"

God and Religion

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Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Stop thinking, and end your problems."

Lao-tse

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein

God and Religion

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

Malcolm Forbes

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."

Jacob Bronowski

Education

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

Henry J. Tillman

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."

Swedish Proverbs

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself."

Ryszard Kapusciński "A Warsaw Diary"

Human

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."

Jascha Heifetz

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Ryszard Kapusciński "A Warsaw Diary"

Question and Problem

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Elias Canetti "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Defeates and Mistakes

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Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The shortest answer is doing."

English Proverbs

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Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."

Lindsay Anderson

Art and Culture

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Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)