Definition of Question

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Question

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.

Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.

That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.

Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.

Talk; conversation; speech; speech.

To ask questions; to inquire.

To argue; to converse; to dispute.

To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.

To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.

To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.

To talk to; to converse with.

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Question Quotations

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.
Thomas Jefferson

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra

Question Translations

question in Afrikaans is kwessie, navraag, vraag
question in Dutch is kwestie, vraag, navraag
question in French is questionnent, questionnons, contester, disputer
question in German is Fragen, ausfragen
question in Portuguese is pergunta
question in Spanish is pregunta, preguntar

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