Best 167 quotes in «questioning quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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'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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

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

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

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

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

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.

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

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.

All answers lie unmanifested in the form of neurochemicals in your head. Seek for them genuinely enough and they will naturally begin to manifest in your neurons.

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

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

Always try to see yourself from the window of other cultures; only then you may begin questioning your own culture! And the road to freedom always starts with sincere questioning!

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.

And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one, and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions, it was good for us to ask them anyway.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Approaching new people, never being afraid to ask questions, clearly expressing emotions, moving, playing and laughing. There is a lot we can learn from our children.

Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already announced to be true. They run a very real risk of jeopardizing their careers if they do. In consequence they focus--perhaps to a large extent subconsciously--on evidence and arguments that don't upset the applecart. There might be room for some tinkering around the edges, some refinement of orthodox ideas, but God forbid that anything should be discovered that might seriously undermine the established paradigm.

A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Asking questions were the most important thing.

Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your life.