Pastoral Resources

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.