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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people. — William J. Clinton

We will discover nothing if we bind ourselves to accepted wisdoms. Questioning is necessary for discovery. — Ros Barber

The important thing is never to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein

Six eyes were questioning God. — Zora Neale Hurston

I want you to ask yourself the entire time before you meet me, 'Is this really what I want? — Brad McKinniss

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little. — Amy Chua

Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I'm proud of it. — Donald Trump

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning
not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim. — Mary Barnett Gilson

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God. — Philip Zaleski

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

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

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom. — John Ferling

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

Find comfort in questioning yourself. — Bryant McGill

You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence. — Seth Avett

Certainly we admire Satan as a symbol of the questioning mind, the refusal to serve, the refusal to blindly obey authority. — Lilith Starr

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

I wasn't sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for? — Hanya Yanagihara

I can't believe that she's questioning the existence of magic when she's standing before me dead and talking. — Kendare Blake

The way everyone pretends to be on the same wavelength without questioning or talking about things - it doesn't get anyone anywhere. — Haruki Murakami

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning. — Deepak Chopra

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ. — Jonathan Gruber

I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine. — Saji Ijiyemi

But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head? — Flann O'Brien

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real? — Kyrsten Sinema

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. — Bryant McGill

Asking questions were the most important thing. — Franz Kafka

Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination. — Vasilios Karpos

The dread, I learned, builds slowly. It eats away at you a little bit over time until you start questioning everything you do and feel. — Jeanie Dyer

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

Do not just accept anything without questioning. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

You should always be questioning your government, but do not become cynical. — Pete Visclosky

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. — Nicholas Stern

Questioning' something is not 'rebellion'..
It's 'Common sense' just 'curious'.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered. — Raheel Farooq

Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks — Natasha Tsakos

And when we stop questioning our ideologies, we stop improving or replacing our existing memes with better ones. — Erika Ilves

The thing is, not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. — Alexei Navalny

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts. — Frank Herbert

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities ... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. — Jay Wright Forrester

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. — Criss Jami

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

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot. — Yani Tseng

The eyes-the thousands of wandering, questioning, reproving eyes-they are all around us. They penetrate my clothes. They rip at my skin. They dour me. — Jessica Brody

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. — Jack London

Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real. — Patrick Carman

It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world? — John Moffitt

An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it? — T.S. Welti

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him! — Joel Osteen

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? — Jim Bakker

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

The art of decision making includes the art of questioning. — Pearl Zhu

Human minds are soft and easy to bend and mold. Most will just follow, never questioning. They are like sheep being led to slaughter. — Cameo Renae

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity. — Katy Butler

Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence. — Poppet

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning. — Kim Edwards

Before you wonder 'Am I doing things right?' ask yourself, 'Am I doing the right things? — Justin Bienvenue

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

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? — Garth Nix

Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process? — Christopher Earle

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place. — Julian Baggini

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance. — David Dark

Any hope of prescience requires a constant questioning of what is, and a deep-seated belief in the possibility of what can be. — R.A. Salvatore

Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery. — Peggy Kopman-Owens

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

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity. — Michael R. Fletcher

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist. — Criss Jami

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real. — Gillian Flynn

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering. — Kevin Kelly

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious. — Raheel Farooq

Explanations are for cowards. — J. Ross Clara

If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? — Judy Blume

Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn. — Tom Stoppard

She always kept up the questioning until she received a satisfactory answer. — Margot Lee Shetterly

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?" — Frederick Lenz

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

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep questioning! With time, you will find answers to your questions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like he's staring at me because he wants to, not because he's questioning himself. — Sara Raasch

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated. — Samantha Harvey

All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth. — Stephen R. Harrison

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either. — Damien Hirst

Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential. — Bryant McGill

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

Courtney Love said she once escorted Kerry to a concert. John Kerry once went out with Courtney Love and he's questioning Bush's judgment. — Jay Leno

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking. — Pearl Zhu

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green? — Red Tash

Heart answered the question
which yet to be posed by mind. — Toba Beta

Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times, — Daniel Kahneman