Questioning Quotes

539 quotes by 456 authors

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;… — Mark Twain
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is… — Dambisa Moyo
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems],… — Gwee Li Sui
I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing… — Jennifer Connelly
We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind… — Pauline Collins
As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out… — Ronald Goldman
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core… — Eleanor Lerman
The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law,… — Susan Lindauer
In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming. — Richard Lindzen
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the… — Peter Straub
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to… — Salman Rushdie
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility… — Jacques Derrida
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth, — Peter Abelard
When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he… — Earl Warren
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers. — Brian Herbert
Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation… — Charlotte Bunch
"Spirituality comes from questioning everything but at the same time accepting everything. You can even be spiritual watching TV. When the ad comes on and… — K D Lang
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with… — Arthur Miller
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a… — James N. Miller

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