Quotes About Questioning

We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

I don't totally buy or believe the paradigm that's constantly presented to us and the financial news is obsessed with, which is growth. There seems to be this paradigm which is: There has to be growth. I'm watching it and thinking, am I the only one who recognises this is a small planet isolated in a gigantic universe? Where are we growing to?

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.

I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

It's become sort of second nature whenever we get into a car to buckle up. It has to be second nature before you get into a car to ask, 'Hey, who are you here to pick up?'

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

You doubt because you love truth.

a man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood…. Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

Where was God? In him and his question.

If you know you are yourself, you know that you are not somebody else; but do you know that you are yourself? Are you sure you are not your own father?—or, excuse me, your own fool?—Who are you, pray?" I

For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.

Instead of automatically blaming the person who does not believe in God, we should ask first if his notion of God is a God that ought to be believed in.