Questioning Quotes - Page 5

• God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

  Francois Mauriac

  Giving, Doe, Answers

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• By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Doubt, Perceive

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• A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Architecture, Stability, Turns

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• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Being Yourself, Matter, Asking Yourself Questions

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.200, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Art is the questioning of culture

  Gerard Mortier

  Art, Culture, Art Is

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• Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

  Byron Katie

  Stressful

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

  Amy Tan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beautiful

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.

  Martine Batchelor

  Practice, Mind, Important

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• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Who We Are

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• If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

  Byron Katie

  Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• 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 of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

  Eleanor Lerman

  Baby, Growing Up, Memories

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• Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.

  Winifred Holtby

  Country, Mean, Patriotism

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• 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 of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

  Jacques Derrida

  Attitude, Cutting, Medical

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.239, Stanford University Press

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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 the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

  Nigel Lawson

  Europe, Issues, Climate

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• As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Taken, Judging, Long

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.64, Lantern Books

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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, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

  Uta Hagen

  Women, Moving, Taken

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning... He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

  Earl Warren

  Taken, Law, Individuality

  Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 478-79, 1965.

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• But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Doubt, Standpoint, Humans

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Respect authority while questioning it.

  Randy Pausch

  Authority

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Running, Play, Wings

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

  Peter Abelard

  Keys, Firsts, Doubted

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

  Halle Berry

  Struggle, Book, Reading

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• I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

  Julien Temple

  Jobs, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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