Quotes About Questioning

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

I don't believe in you, God, but please, help me.

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

But I had read all of [the Bible] by then, and I could see that it changed. And if it changed, how could all of it be true?

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

A word of faith that never balks Here, or henceforward it is all the same to me I accept Time absolutely It alone is without flaw It alone rounds and completes all That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all I accept Reality and dare not question it

My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt—particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

By 1911 I found it impossible to continue my pretenses to orthodoxy;

Prudens quæstio dimidium scientiæ—to know what to ask is already to know half.

Philosophy begins when one doubts one's own beliefs, dogmas, and axioms

What crime have these children committed that they should be born? If

All great artists are doubters.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?