Questioning Quotes
539 quotes by 456 authors
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
— Dan Quayle
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
— Euripides
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
— Ruth Bernhard
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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
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Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.
— Jerry A. Coyne
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit…
— Bergen Evans
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If you judge, investigate.
— Seneca the Younger
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...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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
— M. Scott Peck
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Good questions outrank easy answers.
— Paul Samuelson
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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
Who Wrote These Questioning Quotes
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