Quotes About Questioning

You get to have beliefs of your own. What matters is not that you agree with us but that you question the prevailing paradigm and decide for yourself what you believe.

When we begin to question all the ways we have been told we ought to be, we can begin to edit and rewrite our old tapes. By breaking the rules, we both free and empower ourselves.

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

since you're awake and dressed, why isn't your phone on?" She asked the question as if it was one of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. As if the idea of not having a phone on and by one's side every waking instant was inconceivable.

And as you've already seen," added the AI, "I can't even answer all of your questions about the how of it, as you put it.

What do want with us?

woman do you take me for?

We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings.

Dismissiveness, no matter how forcefully or broadly it may be communicated, has no persuasive value when attempting to reject evidence that calls one's view into question. - Douglas Petrovich 19 March 2021

28. How can you disbelieve in Allaah?

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Oh my god what am I doing with my life?

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?