Questioning Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

  Emile Durkheim

  Strong, Ignorance, Risk

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.245, Routledge

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• The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Feelings, Naked

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• Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

  Louise Rennison

  Baby, Jesus, Sorry

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• Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Ungrateful, Spirit

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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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• Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

  Dale Spender

  Change, Powerful, Challenges

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• Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

  David Salle

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  People, Good Things, Ends

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• I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning, and guilt. Almost an "anti-ambition." Like, an awareness, and then a subsequent guilt. But sometimes that progressive, liberal guilt is really obnoxious, too - in some ways, I think it's better to just own it. It's weird, that actually, the acknowledgement of privilege or the enactment of guilt can be as obnoxious as anything else. It's a never-ending rabbit hole. We're really in a rabbit hole right now, with this conversation. We're just spiraling down into the void.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Guilt, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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 wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.

  Israel Zangwill

  Art, Philosophy, Humorous

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.551, Library of Alexandria

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• Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

  Alan Moore

  Men, Asking, Paradox

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• Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

  Edwin Meese

  People, Giving, Police

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

  Bill Gross

  Doors, Icons, Might

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• Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Wall, Wine, Love Is

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

  George R. R. Martin

  Honor, Existence, Tyrion

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• Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Magic, Library

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• I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Heart, Mind, Doe

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• Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!

  Elizabeth Wein

  Daughter, Hypocrite, Thinking

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.171, Egmont UK

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• I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

  Maria Bello

  People

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• To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

  Jose Rizal

  Kissing, Answers, Speech

  Jose Rizal (2009). “The Social Cancer: Noli Me Tangere”, p.162, The Floating Press

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• Ask with urgency and passion.

  Arthur Balfour

  Passion, Asks, Urgency

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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