Quotes About Questioning

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens, ' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

Who knows if you're alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I'm even alive anymore?

Why, play we, these games of mere men?

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

it's more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

...There's a lot I don't understand...but not understanding is better not believing" - Ambrose

In his last days on this earth, he'd wanted to know if this was all there was.

Once I was everything, now I'm nothing.You won't only doubt yourself, you doubt life.

Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?

She said calmly, "So I hear you are now an atheist. Is that true?" I nodded yes, and she smiled. She placed the package in my hands. "The man's name is Friedrich Nietzsche, and the book is called Twilight of the Idols," she said. "If you are going to be an atheist, be the best one out there. Bon appetit!

If you look at 4-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions. But by the time they are 6½ years old, they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

we must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity, in our workplaces, our homes, and especially in our schools.

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Our sense of wonder makes us question the way we've been doing things and encourages us to ask, Is there a better way?

Trotsky once asked, "How many Aristotles are herding swine, and how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?

Not all question asking is good. It depends on the attitude. Is there a submission to the Word of God and a readiness to obey God when we understand what he wants of us? Is there a willingness to embrace the mysteries of God if something is plain but over our head?

As a consequence, scientists who are carefully reflective about their activity do not instinctively ask the question 'Is it reasonable?' as if they were confident beforehand what shape rationality had to take. We have noted how 'unreasonable', in classical Newtonian terms, the nature of light turned out to be. Instead, for the scientist the proper phrasing of the truth- seeking question takes the form, 'What makes you think that might be the case?

Again and again the schools which form the twentieth century's elites throughout the West refer to their Socratic heritage. The implication is that doubt is constantly raised in their search for truth. In reality the way they teach is the opposite of a Socratic dialogue. In the Athenian's case every answer raised a question. With the contemporary elites every question produces an answer. Socrates would have thrown the modern elites out of his academy.

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

Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said.