Questioning Quotes - Page 16

• I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people.

  Robert Baer

  People, Looks, Information

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• Creativity comes from the part of the brain that is veritable soup of experiences, memories and influences. We really don't like to start questioning exactly where it comes from, in case it stops coming.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Memories, Creativity, Brain

  Source: www.thatvideogameblog.com

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• And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic institutions such as the free press. I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press. And to me, going down an authoritarian path is the greatest danger that we face as a republic.

  Ted Lieu

  Mean, People, Understanding

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"

  Ben Domenech

  Thinking, Opinion, Policy

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

  Lene

  Lucky, Strange, Study

  "Q&A with Lene Hau". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. March 17, 2007.

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• Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities.

  James Franklin Jeffrey

  Military, Thinking, Optimism

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.

  Michael Tomasky

  Real, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Anything And Everything, Punk

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves.

  Azar Nafisi

  Queens, Historical, Looks

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• The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.

  Leonard Lawlor

  Religious, Distance, Grateful

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Hero, Successful, Guitar

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• That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

  John Diefenbaker

  Answers, Knows, Parliamentary

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

  H. L. Mencken

  Change, Loyalty, Time

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

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• How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Wild Imagination, Chinese

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Visions Of The Future, Skills, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Assessment, Nsa, Names

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

  Saul Williams

  Challenges, Waking, Emotion

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Doubt, Awakening, Thorough

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• When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

  Jim Bakker

  Firsts, Prison

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

  Yanni

  Dream, Answers, Dreams Come True

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

  Niall Ferguson

  Teacher, Strategy, Professors

  "Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag" By Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

  Randy Johnson

  Tired, Numbers, Issues

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• As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.

  Ronald Goldman

  Religious, Stress, Caring

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• Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Doubt, Religion, Atheism

  "For the love of God". www.independent.co.uk. April 6, 2011.

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