Quotes About Questioning

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

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

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

I don't know man, I didn't do it.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

Man is incurably curious.