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Quotes About Questioning

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
~ John F. Kennedy
Why was I here? What now? Who did I know? Not even myself.
~ John Fante
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
~ John Fante
Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.
~ John Ferling
If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one
~ John Flanagan
What if Halt were wrong?
~ John Flanagan
Uh... is dat een bonte havik?' vroeg Will... 'Nee, dat is geen bonte havik,' zei Halt nors, zonder zelfs even de moeite te nemen te kijken waar Will naar wees. 'En als het er toch een is kan hij de pot op.
~ John Flanagan
Before he could finish the question, Will interrupted, thinking to clarify matters but only making them more puzzling—as so often happens.
~ John Flanagan
WHERE THE BLIND, BLUE, BLITHERING BLAZES HAVE YOU BEEN?" the calm and dignified Princess Cassandra demanded.
~ John Flanagan
Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him.
~ John Flanagan
I don't know. I don't know. And . . . I don't know
~ John Flanagan
The following day, he would find a bruise and wonder how it got there. When
~ John Flanagan
he might be wrong.
~ John Flanagan
Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1,000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?
~ John Freeman
The reader is invited to ask him-or herself, Is it possible that I am seeing the world from inside a System? Am I, unbeknownst to myself, a Systems-person? The answer is always, Yes. The relevant question is, simply, Which System?
~ John Gall
surely by now you must know: It's love; it's love—but will there ever be good news?...
~ John Geddes
I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...
~ John Geddes
We can live with doubts," Jessop said "It's the knowing that breaks us.
~ John Hart
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.
~ John Henry Newman
what's going on
~ John J. Nance
the major problems with being crazy: you're just naturally uncertain about things.
~ John Katzenbach
Ése es uno de los principales problemas de estar loco: nunca estás seguro de las cosas
~ John Katzenbach
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
~ John Keats
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
~ John Lennon