Quotes About Questioning

A relentless barrage of 'why's' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.

Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?

We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.

283 Develop your curiosity, not caring whether the object of you inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet.~

Churches have always seemed to me almost irrefutable evidence. They make me wonder if – just possibly – I might be wrong.

God, she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?

I'm not sure that I believe in God.' 'Oh I do,' says Claudia. 'Who else could bugger things up so effectively?

Her face, suddenly, contorts. The lips pinch and tighten. A hand crawls across the sheet. Lisa says, 'Are you all right?' 'No, says Claudia. 'But who is?

I was born in a time when most young people had lost their belief in God for much the same reason that their elders had kept theirs - without knowing why.

What have we done?' he asked, but there was no one to answer him.

don't confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute truth; he was no sceptic.

Advocacy without inquiry begets more advocacy.

Maybe you're just wandering around out here with your thumb up your ass, waiting for some answer that might let you off the hook.

If you look at four-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions and wondering how things work," Gregersen observed generally. "But by the time they are six and a half years old they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they may not be as securely grounded as they appear to be.

But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people.

What did anything mean? he wondered. And how did a person tell? We can never be certain. Not until our dying day. And maybe not even then. All of us, he thought, are down here fumbling around, guessing and calculating. Doing the best we can.

Just tell me why; why the fucking why? To which the universe would hollowly respond, My ways cannot be known, oh man. Which is to say, My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me.