Quotes About Questioning

Why are things beautiful? I don't know. That's a good question. Isn't it pleasing when you ask a question of a person, a teacher, or a speaker, and he or she says, That's a good question? Don't you feel good when that happens?

I wondered whether I was crying because I was sad, or because I had just been released from my sadness.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Here is a law as reliable as gravity: The degree to which we believe our faith is makes us human is the same degree with which we will question the humanity of those who do not share our faith.

All these years later, the way many of us are doing church is broken and we know it, even if we do not know what to do about it.

Why, Sandilands? Why?

How many minutes is shortly?" I asked. "Is it one minute or eight minutes or eleven minutes? On account of if it's one minute, I can wait, probably. But eleven minutes would be out of the question." Mr. Scary walked back to my desk. And he sat me in my chair. I glanced up at him. "All I'm looking for is a rough estimate," I said.

Yeah, but what does that even mean... heaven? Because see, I need to be able to put him somewhere, Zo. In my head, I mean. I need to be able to close my eyes and picture him and know he's okay. And just saying the word heaven doesn't help that much. Because like what is heaven, exactly? And where is it? And what do you do there?

By doubting we come to inquire and by inquiring we percieve the truth

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Once the divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

But once divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.

No creo que cuestionar las cosas sea una enfermedad. La obediencia ciega sin cuestionamientos, es la enfermedad.

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

Reason is the enemy of faith.

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.