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Quotes About Questioning

Kysymys : Miksi on enemmän kaneja kuin oravia? Vastaus : Yrittäisit itse nussia puussa.
~ Jarkko Laine
Sometimes I ask myself, "Do I have the courage to do the right thing when it matters most?" And that answer, I'm afraid, is silence.
~ Jarod Kintz
If I told you I've worked hard to get where I'm at, I'd be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.
~ Jarod Kintz
Rather than demand whatever it takes, we ask, What will it take?
~ Jason Fried
It was amazing that it could be done, but we had forgotten to ask whether it should be done.
~ Jason Fried
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
~ Jason Reitman
I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
~ Jason Reitman
Address the implications of the alternate view. Another thing Peter might say is, "Let's put aside for a minute the question of whether this complaint is true and instead ask what if it were true? What would it mean? What would be the implications for you?
~ Douglas Stone
The heading says it all: inquire to learn. And only to learn. You can tell whether a question will help the conversation or hurt it by thinking about why you asked it. The only good answer is "To learn.
~ Douglas Stone
This illustrates an important rule about inquiry: If you don't have a question, don't ask a question. Never dress up an assertion as a question. Doing so creates confusion and resentment, because such questions are inevitably heard as sarcastic and sometimes mean-spirited.
~ Douglas Stone
Asking for physical proof for God's existence is like asking for proof of the existence of energy. Energy is everywhere. We assume its existence because we see its effects. We can understand the sources of energy and the forms it takes. We can devise theories about how energy changes and how energy behaves, but if I wanted to obstinately doubt the existence of energy how could anyone prove its existence?
~ Dwight Longenecker
How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?
~ e. e. cummings
Sixth graders had stopped asking Now what? and had started asking So what? She had not been sorry to retire when she did.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Me up at does out of the floor quietly Stare a poisoned mouse still who alive is asking What have i done that You wouldn't have
~ E.E. Cummings
Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Me pregunto ¿es lo que pienso que es o es algo completamente diferente?
~ Eckhart Tolle
If there is a god they need to come down to Earth and explain WWII, Hitler, bowel cancer, and Croc shoes.
~ Eddie Izzard
Why, I never did believe it
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
don't understand why you would want
~ Edie Claire
The wise are doubtful,' Socrates returned, 'and I should not be singular if I too doubted.
~ Edith Hamilton
Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.
~ Edith Hamilton
The habit of questioning everything can be dangerous, for sooner or later it will surely bring a man into head-on collision with the unquestionable, and he will not be able in conscience to draw aside.
~ Edith Pargeter
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
~ Edith Wharton
Lily's. As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
~ Edith Wharton