Quotes About Questioning

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

Art thou the King of the Jews?

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'