Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions."
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Difficult Questions
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Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances."
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"What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you."
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"There aren't any songs that I would call impossible to play live, but some are difficult. A lot of Queensryche songs are difficult to play live. It's quite a difficult question to answer because everybody (In the band) has their own opinion of what's difficult to play."
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"Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions."
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"Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions."
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"Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them."
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