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Questioning is the piety of thought. -- Martin Heidegger
Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential. -- Bryant McGill
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. -- Henry Rollins
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. -- Samuel Johnson
Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true. -- Byron Katie
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. -- Bernard Haisch
Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination -- LDarnell
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. -- Werner Heisenberg
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. -- Tim Jackson
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little. -- Amy Chua
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves. -- Zygmunt Bauman
We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged?it is barely tolerated. -- Warren Berger
Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. -- Colleen Hoover
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. -- Peter Abelard
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. -- Brian Ferneyhough
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well. -- John Sununu
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher. -- Gene Spafford
Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to. -- Laurie Seidler
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. -- John W. Gardner
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. -- Cara Delevingne
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' -- David Bowie
Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations. -- Steven Novella
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. -- Ruby Dee
The most important thing is to not stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it. -- Seth Godin
If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question. -- Howard Baker
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. -- Max Weber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -- James Thurber
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. -- John Locke
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. -- Og Mandino
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. -- James A. Baldwin
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. -- Elon Musk
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life. -- Seneca the Younger
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -- Bertrand Russell
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems. -- Frank 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 of women's energy. -- Charlotte Bunch
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. -- Orson Scott Card
How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' -- John Abbott
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. -- Laurence Fishburne
I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck. -- Julia Cameron
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. -- Albert Einstein
By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. -- Peter Abelard
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. -- Larry Flynt
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. -- Albert Einstein
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. -- Stella Young
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. -- Lene Hau
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief. -- Dan Brown
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. -- Milton Glaser
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. -- Ai Weiwei
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. -- Robert Vaughn
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 the origin of the opposition between good and evil. -- Georges Bataille
I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind. -- Jane Goodall
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. -- Gore Vidal
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven. -- Joe Rogan
I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.' -- James Harden
The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story. -- Shashi Tharoor
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. -- Earl Warren
Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do. -- Eriq La Salle
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. -- Elon Musk
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are. -- Duane Michals
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
Respect authority while questioning it. -- Randy Pausch
Warhol was questioning the capitalist society. -- James Rosenquist
Art is the questioning of culture -- Gerard Mortier
Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself. -- Archibald Marwizi
Quit questioning God and start trusting Him! -- Joel Osteen
Do not just accept anything without questioning. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The thing is, not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
The path to holiness lies through questioning everything. -- M. Scott Peck
Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield. -- Ami Ayalon
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. -- Mason Cooley
An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it? -- T.S. Welti
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity! -- Gabrielle Reece
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning. -- Peter Abelard
Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom. -- Chip R. Bell
Keep questioning! With time, you will find answers to your questions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue -- Christine Maggiore
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us. -- Margaret Mead
I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence. -- George R. R. Martin
I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine. -- Saji Ijiyemi
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties. -- Kay Hooper
They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning. -- Kim Edwards
You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical. -- Pete Visclosky
Anytime you make big plans, you have people questioning what you're doing. -- Tim Armstrong
I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning. -- Maria Bello
Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop. -- Ingmar Bergman
By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth, -- Peter Abelard
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. -- Salman Rushdie
The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity. -- Albert Einstein
I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity. -- Katy Butler
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it. -- Lionel Suggs
A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it. -- Pauline Baynes
The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim. -- Mary Barnett Gilson
Houllier couldn't deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions -- Robbie Fowler
Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real. -- Patrick Carman
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. -- Barack Obama
I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God. -- Jim Jefferies
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. -- Brian Ferneyhough
I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified. -- Charlie Brooker
I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion. -- Unarine Ramaru
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. -- Jerry A. Coyne
The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot. -- Yani Tseng
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. -- Amy Chua
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? -- Jim Bakker
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist. -- Glenn Greenwald
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. -- Alexei Navalny
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition. -- Hanna Rosin
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. -- Vera Farmiga
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. -- Euripides
I think it's high time we started questioning the old cliches like "Grunt big for Daddy." -- Jack Handey
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning. -- John Diefenbaker
The reason people lose their healing is because they begin questioning if God really did it. -- Benny Hinn
If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me. -- Skeet Ulrich

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