Top 659 Questioning Quotes & Sayings

There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

Respect authority while questioning it.

Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am also really questioning what a lot of photography has done since I began. I am not saying because of me, but I mean, photographing some friends partying and publishing the pictures meant something else in '92 than it does in 2011. And I find the younger generation is not questioning this at all today.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.

With Froch everyone was questioning me and I was trying to prove a point.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.

It hurts me to consider anybody questioning my performances.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.

Some Americans question Donald Trump's legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let's not forget that one of Donald Trump's claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy - more than that, the citizenship - of President Barack Obama.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

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

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning... He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

Art is the questioning of culture

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Queer is about intense questioning that can't be made nice and glossy.

To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.

I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008.

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

There can be no questioning Paulo Dybala's qualities.

I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

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

We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

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

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

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

Science is about questioning things.

Anytime you make big plans, you have people questioning what you're doing.

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.