Self Questioning Quotes

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Science, Discovery

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Criticism, Scientific Method

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hurtful, Together, Fairy Tale

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.555, Anchor

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Debt

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Aging, Obsolete

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• When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

  Anne Fontaine

  Real, Lying, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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