Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"Questioning is the piety of thought."
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Questioning
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The thing is, not to stop questioning."
Ingmar Bergman
Film Director, Screenwriter
"Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop."
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true."
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it."
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"You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism."
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"Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything."
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"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."
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"I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence."
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"There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."
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"Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one."
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"But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge."
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"I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity."
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"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."
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