Questioning Quotes

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. (Euripides)
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. View quote
Albert Einstein
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. View quote
Earl Warren
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it. View quote
Benny Hinn
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. (Nicholas Stern)
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. View quote
Robert Vaughan
The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy. View quote
Aage Niels Bohr
You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union. View quote
Bill Clinton
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies. View quote
Michael A. Stackpole
If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. View quote
Orson Scott Card
If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally. View quote
Georges Bernanos
That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other. View quote
Carl Sagan
Respect authority while questioning it. View quote
Randy Pausch
The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend. (Mario Savio)
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat. View quote
Ronald Knox
When the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions. View quote
Karl Mannheim
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems. View quote
Frank Herbert
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger