Questioning Quotes - Page 17

• You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

  William J. Clinton

  Should Have, People, Perfect

  William J. Clinton's Dole Lecture at University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, archive.news.ku.edu. May 21, 2004.

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• For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

  Sandra Dodd

  Order, Accepting, Disturbing Things

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• People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

  Frank Herbert

  Philosophy, Structure, Behinds

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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• Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!

  Rodney Yee

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

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• Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

  Chris Messina

  Girl, Jobs, Thinking

  "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Giving Up, Blessed

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• Once you start to question your life you get to a higher level of awareness. It's like turning a light on-voila you see you have choices and choices are sacred.

  Naomi Judd

  Light, Choices, Levels

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• Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

  Eric Clapton

  Up To You, Asks

  Song: Let It Grow, Album: 461 Ocean Boulevard, 1974

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• For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives were not good" is to fall into the impiety of questioning the wisdom of God in bestowing gifts of grace where He wills.

  Frank E. Gaebelein

  Christian, Attitude, Fall

  Frank E. Gaebelein (1997). “The Christian, the Arts, and Truth: Regaining the Vision of Greatness”, Multnomah

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• We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified. Christianity is not merely a set of forgone conclusions. Faith tends to be defeated by the burning presence of God in mystery, and seeks refuge from him, flying to comfortable social forms and safe convictions in which purification is no longer an inner battle but a matter of outward gesture.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Believe, Struggle

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• We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

  Warren Berger

  Culture, Inquiry, Answers

  "The Surprising Power of Beautiful Questions". Interview with Scott Goodson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.

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• The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Temptation, Firsts, Goodness

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• The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, Years, People

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• I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Answers, Goes On, Authority

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• The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Past, Years, San Diego

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• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

  Amy Waldman

  Character, Trying, Novelists

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• The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  God, Science, Men

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• I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

  Chris Hayes

  Basketball, Thinking, Views

  "Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

  Georges Bernanos

  Fire, Answers, Hell

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mean, Mind, Measurement

  "Schrödinger: Life and Thought". Book by Walter Moore, 1989.

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• Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

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• Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gentleman, Conversation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.444

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• "I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?" "That you fit in well?"

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Two, Trying

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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