Quotes About Questioning

Doubt is not a fearful thing," Feynman observed, "but a thing of very great value.

The question that imposed itself: Why me? The image doesn't fit: my thick glasses, my stretched-out blue Nordic sweater, the student head slaps, the too-good grades, the feminine gestures. Why me? He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

To step off the reservation to question the rules of the larger society is to take a great risk, but perhaps also to find a great opportunity. We will never know how great the opportunity was if we are afraid to take the risk.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...

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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

Everybody is a seeker to a degree.

I can't really stand self-help stuff myself.

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.

I stopped going to church for awhile.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I was always taught to be grateful, and so the question came early: What is there to be grateful for? Why is life supposed to be so good? That's still a question I try to answer all the time.

Just because people say things, they're supposed to be true?

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

I have always had complete faith in the Almighty. But there are times when I question His actions. I do that very rarely, because I am an absolute believer in destiny.

It's not whether I believe in God, but it's whether He believes in me.