Quotes About Questioning

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.

What have we here—jinn or human?

Religion suppresses curiosity.

Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —Darwi Odrade

Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: Why is there anything?

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

And what have they created?" Taraza asked. "Only the image of evil stupidity?" "Act stupid long enough and you become stupid

Am I good or evil? Orne asked himself. He forced his attention onto the question, but it was like wading upstream in a swift river. His thoughts twisted and turned, showed a tendency to scatter. He said: "I'm ... if I'm one with all the universe, then I am God. I am creation. I am the miracle. How can that be good or evil?

Bir s?rr? gizlemenin en iyi yolu, insanlar? yan?t? zaten bildiklerine inand?rmakt?r. O zaman soru sormazlar.

Well now, whose feint am I?

Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.

Lord, are you telling me that you are not really a god? I am telling you that I do not play hide-and-seek with death.

Leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes amplified by the number of those who follow without questioning, move inevitably toward great disasters.

What is it you really want to know, Siona? What you believe! Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now-I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

El maestro dice que morir por la Fe es una cosa gloriosa, y papá dice que morir por Irlanda es una cosa gloriosa, y yo me pregunto si hay en el mundo alguien que quiera que vivamos.

But, Mummy, couldn't God make another wars, but bad people. Oh! I said. I was disappointed about that. I began to think that God wasn't quite what he was cracked up to be.

during the first two interrogative sessions. Either I refused to answer or I would reply

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

who are the brain police?