Quotes About Questioning

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

reminding us of Psalm 2, which asks: "Why do the heathen rage?

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.' Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is it just a business, selling hope to people who can't afford it?' Malus: 'Clever people have been asking that question since the iron age, Zoe. The answer remains the same.' Zoe: 'And... ?' Malus: 'Business is good.' (A dialogue regarding the Church between a demon and a human.)

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?

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"

If I was free, if I was just me, then what was I?

Science is always inquiring.

A brahmin once asked the Blessed One: Are you a God? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. Are you a saint? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. Are you a magician? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. What are you then? ''I am awake.

If Custine were among us now, he would recognise the evil of political correctness at once, because of the violence that it does to people's souls by forcing them to say or imply what they do not believe but must not question. Custine would demonstrate to us that, without an external despot to explain our pusillanimity, we have willingly adopted the mental habits of people who live under a totalitarian dictatorship. Custine

Ask the next question.

Timothy, are you still black?

You can't be 100 per cent certain of anything.

The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether "a supreme being of some kind" exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and end of all things truly is as revealed in Scripture

A critical, probing faith is a necessary and useful stage toward an assured and confirmed faith (Job 3:1–26; Clement of Alex., Stromata 8.9; Luther, Letters of Spiritual Counsel).

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

Thus has the bewildered Wanderer to stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim Desert, this once-fair world of his; wherein is heard only the howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men; and no Pillar of Cloud by day, and no Pillar of Fire by night, any longer guides the Pilgrim. To such length has the spirit of Inquiry carried him.

Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men... (The Everlasting No)

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.