Best 167 quotes in «questioning quotes» category

This is a hard question. But as women we have a right to ask the hard questions. The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.

Through my questions, you will learn to teach yourselves.

Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?

We don't have to have all the answers and know everything. Life is about acknowledging the unknown and just living.

To question is to think, act and create, so answers become thoughtful, actionable and creative.

To question is to grow.

Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?

What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?

We often hear of someone saying, ‘So you don’t trust me’ or ‘Are you questioning my integrity?’ or ‘You don’t believe me.’ They get defensive and angry because someone questions their actions, and they think they are above being questioned or having to prove their trustworthiness. But none of us is above questioning.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

What do you really want in life? This is a dangerous question because you may lose a great many years to find an answer! Don’t ask! Don’t waste your time! Life will give the answers of the questions you have not even asked!

When the questions receive an answer to its curiosity, there shouldn't be further questioning; otherwise, it creates and defines an absurdity.

When someone asks a question, don't assume they don't know the answer. Clever people will always test you.

What kind of person doesn't know whether her father was a king or a monster?

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

When you're playing at something and having fun, you don't stop to ask yourself why.

Why do you dwell on things that don’t matter when there are so many things that do?

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Wind is on fire" - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other!

You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that's what he loved really, at least in The Symposium.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

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

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.

I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders.

If you don't shut up, how can I answer your questions!

I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.

All this thinking and questioning is just a game. There is no real seriousness to it.

Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.

Alignment, to us, means bringing pieces into the same line - the same direction. The metaphor is that a magnet will make pieces of iron point toward it. Agreement is shared intellectual understanding. Tribes are clusters of people, and people are complex and nonrational at times. If a tribe is united only by agreement, as soon as times change, agreement has to be reestablished. If people learn new ideas or see a problem from a new perspective, they no longer agree, so tribes based on agreement often discourage learning, questioning, and independent thought. Tribes based on alignment want to maximize each person's contribution, provided that they stay pointed in the same direction like magnetized iron filings.