Quotes About Questioning

Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme, grotesque immorality.

For each Tendency, one question matters most: Upholders ask: Should I do this? Questioners ask: Does this make sense? Obligers ask: Does this matter to anyone else? Rebels ask: Is this the person I want to be?

Questioners ... can add tremendous value to relationships and organizations by ensuring that they-and the people around them- don't unthinkingly accept expectations that aren't well justified

Questioners are often puzzled by others' willingness to act without sound reasons.

when encouraging Questioners to take action, it can be useful to remind them, Just try it. It's an experiment.

Questioners tend to be very interested in improving processes. They like to eliminate mistakes and make things better.

Because of their focus on justification, Questioners wake up each day and think, What needs to get done today and why?

I've learned to resist my inclination to meet an expectation unthinkingly, and to ask, "Why am I meeting this expectation, anyway?

But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though trying to find the cause of her suffering.

Emma repeated to herself, Good Heavens! Why did I marry?

My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my own doubt.

Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?

Souvent, en regardant le soleil, je me suis dit « Pourquoi viens-tu chaque jour éclairer tant de souffrances, découvrir tant de douleurs, présider à tant de sottes misères ? »

Doute. Pire que la négation.

Fins quan havia de durar aquella existència miseriosa? No se'n sortiria mai? Què tenien de més, que ella no posseís, aquelles que trobaven el consol de la felicitat? [...] Això li feia execrar la injustícia de Déu.

And Emma wondered exactly what was meant in life by the words 'bliss', 'passion', 'ecstasy', which had looked so beautiful in books

But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

The wise man says: Perhaps?

The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned. Its sole message is: "What appears is good; what is good appears." The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances, its manner of appearing without allowing any reply.

Maybe I'm not cold. Maybe I'm just lost. Do lonely and cold feel the same? At bottom are they the same thing?

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Um metafísico é alguém que, quando você lhe diz que dois vezes dois são quatro, ele quer saber o que você entende por vezes, o que significa dois, e o que quer dizer são e por que isto dá quatro. Por fazerem tais perguntas, os metafísicos desfrutam um luxo oriental nas universidades e são respeitados como homens educados e inteligentes.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Befragt die Geringeren, auf daß nicht die Größeren Euch antworten und mehr heraufbeschwören, als Ihr vermöget