List Of Embarrassing Questions Quotes

Embarrassed Journalists Ask Me Embarrassing Questions, And They Get Embarrassing Answers, And Then Hand Out Embarrassing Stories To The Embarrassing Editors, Who Put Them To The Front Pages Of Newspapers. When Is This Going To End?

The Central Fact For Me Is, I Think, That The [role Of The] Intellectual... Cannot Be Played Without A Sense Of Being Someone Whose Place It Is Publicly To Raise Embarrassing Questions, To Confront Orthodoxy And Dogma (rather Than To Produce Them), To Be Someone Who Cannot Easily Be Co-opted By Governments Or Corporations, And Whose Raison D'etre Is To Represent All Those People And Issues That Are Routinely Forgotten Or Swept Under The Rug.

All Of Us Cherish Our Beliefs. They Are, To A Degree, Self-defining. When Someone Comes Along Who Challenges Our Belief System As Insufficiently Well-based - Or Who, Like Socrates, Merely Asks Embarrassing Questions That We Haven't Thought Of, Or Demonstrates That We've Swept Key Underlying Assumptions Under The Rug - It Becomes Much More Than A Search For Knowledge. It Feels Like A Personal Assault.

There Aren't Any Embarrassing Questions — Just Embarrassing Answers.

There Are No Embarrassing Answers-just Embarrassing Questions.

I Much Preferred The Peaceful Life On The Road, Where I Didn't Have To Ask Embarrassing Questions And Do All The Things Real Reporters Have To Do.

It Is Not Without Fear And Trembling That A Historian Of Religion Approaches The Problem Of Myth. This Is Not Only Because Of That Preliminary Embarrassing Question: What Is Intended By Myth? It Is Also Because The Answers Given Depend For The Most Part On The Documents Selected.