Questioning Quotes

539 quotes by 456 authors

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. — Dan Quayle
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. — Euripides
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… — Werner Heisenberg
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages… — Dante Alighieri
I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced… — Jack Fleck
The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. — Ruth Bernhard
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority. — William Redington Hewlett
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. — Jerry A. Coyne
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit… — Bergen Evans
If you judge, investigate. — Seneca the Younger
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is… — Susan Sontag
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
In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled… — Nigel Lawson
I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects. I… — Rick Perry
The path to holiness lies through questioning everything. — M. Scott Peck
Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul Samuelson
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for… — Georges Bataille

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