Questioning Quotes - Page 13

• Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

  Tim Jackson

  Growth, Revolutionary, Idealist

  "Politics Without Creativity Is Not Political". "The European" Interview, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. April 07, 2011.

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• Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Law, Goal

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Very often when I see people who are perceived to be, or who call themselves progressives, sometimes I see an imbalance. Yes I understand the courage in their mind but I don't see the spirituality in their heart, good you are questioning the limits, but what about yourself, are you also liberating yourself?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, People, Mind

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

  Alan Green

  Teenager, Fall, Listening

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Block

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• While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This function is not well-defined. The Constitution does not set down a road map. It does not require hearings. In fact, it does not even require questioning on your understanding of the Constitution nor the role of the Supreme Court.

  Mike DeWine

  Advice, Understanding, President

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Games, Historical, Portraiture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Land, Long, Giving

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• All I'm saying is [John McCain] cannot look a soldier in the eye and say "Questioning the president is less supportive to you than extending your tour three months." You should be coming home to your family.

  Jon Stewart

  Eye, Home, Soldier

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.

  Kofi Annan

  School, Men, Boys

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• I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.

  Claire McCaskill

  United States, Sacred, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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 tons of research and questioning everything

  Jennifer Connelly

  Research, Good Times, Casts

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• 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], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry.

  Gwee Li Sui

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
  Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
  In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
  Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winter, Long, Tree

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4394, Delphi Classics

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• Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things,
  Fallings from us, vanishings;
  Blank misgivings of a Creature
  Moving about in worlds not realised,
  High instincts before which our mortal Nature
  Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

  William Wordsworth

  Moving, Fall, World

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 146 (1807)

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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 the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  Georges Bataille

  Moving, Light, Essence

  "The Dualist Materialism of Georges Bataille". Paper by Denis Hollier. Yale French Studies No. 78 ("On Bataille"), pp. 124-139, www.jstor.org. September 26, 1990.

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• People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

  John Lennon

  Asking Questions, People, Confusion

  Song: Watching The Wheels, Album: Double Fantasy, 1998

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• I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Heart, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.

  Byron Katie

  Firsts, Sometimes, Concepts

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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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 I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.

  Jack Fleck

  Golf, Missing, Tubs

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• Thanks to the European Union, Ireland has a much more open climate of discussion and debate, as you can see in the media. It means that we are a more questioning society, perhaps more honestly prepared to address serious issues and problems, more open to the idea that different viewpoints should be heard and respected.

  Mary Robinson

  Mean, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It is essential that America's word be good. And so I know that this campaign has caused some questioning and worries on the part of many leaders across the globe. I've talked with a number of them. But I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Long, Breaking Away

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• Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

  Euripides

  Funny, Time, Needs

  "Aeolus". Play by Euripides, 423 BCE.

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