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• The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Humility, Questions And Answers

  National Observer, January 20, 1964.

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Asking Questions, Questions And Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.139, Ultramarine Publishing

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• When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Intellectual, Skins, Unmotivated

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• The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Godly, Reflection

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• We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Never Quit, Quitting, Assumption

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• This wasn’t the first time I’d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time I’d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning. “Are you a virgin?

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, Lines, Firsts

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.5, Penguin

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• Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Attitude, Self, Support

  Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.437, Transaction Publishers

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• The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Important, Criminals, Elements

  FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jun 20, 2014

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• Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, Challenges, Shapes

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.

  Steven Novella

  Emotional, Comforting, Psychology

  "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010.

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• Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

  Joel Osteen

  God, Trusting Him, Religion

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• We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but I am questioning how we’ve made safety our highest priority. We’ve elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God’s best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.

  Francis Chan

  Safety, Priorities, Purpose

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.131, David C Cook

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• The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.

  F. F. Bruce

  Bible, Dream, Writing

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• The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Teacher, Personality

  "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Wish, Saying No, Sometimes

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• You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

  Larry Flynt

  Believe, Speech, Knows

  "Publisher Larry Flynt". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Sweet, Inspiration, Greatness

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• In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Accompany Us, Suffering

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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme, grotesque immorality.

  Greta Christina

  Reality, Voice, Self

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• I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

  Mark Hoppus

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

  Brian Herbert

  Teaching, School, Acceptance

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.518, Spectra

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