Probing Quotes

32 quotes by 32 authors

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining — Lyndon B. Johnson
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." — Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. — Warren E. Burger
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,… — Uta Hagen
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. — Pamela Stephenson
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Randall Balmer
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently… — Ross McKitrick
A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and… — George Bernard Shaw
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of… — Randall Kennedy
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question. — Elaine Dundon
When dealing with children there is greater need forÂ observingÂ than of probing — Maria Montessori
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage… — Hope Edelman
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freudâ€™s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Brenda Webster
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. — Johannes V. Jensen
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. — Avital Ronell
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time,… — Anthony Burgess
Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into… — Frederick Lenz

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