Quotes About Questionings

#1. For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#2. Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

William Wordsworth

#3. Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Sarada Devi

#4. Which Painters hold, and such the heritage This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess, Being a better mirror of his age In all his pity, love, and weariness, Than those who can but copy common things, And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings. But

Oscar Wilde

#5. God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Francois Mauriac

#6. In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Andre Malraux

#7. thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#9. Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional ... transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.

Bill Mallonee

#10. My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Kahlil Gibran

#11. As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home was different from that in the homes of others ... This stimulated me to introspection and strange mental questionings.

John George Haigh

#12. How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.

Cecelia Ahern

#13. The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dalai Lama

#14. The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.

John Rucyahana

#15. In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

Subcomandante Marcos

#16. The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Charlie Chaplin

#17. Skin is important, Lille. Some marks last forever. You have to decide if they're worth it.

L. H. Cosway

#18. I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.

Catherynne M Valente