Quotes About Questioning

when I say that children should be taught to think I do not mean (like many moderns) that they should be taught to doubt; for the two processes are not only not the same, but are in many ways opposite. To doubt is only to destroy; to think is to create.

principles of freethought is that no question is unaskable.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress.

idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer

evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It's this aspect of religious indoctrination that is most unacceptable—the idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer, and that someone else has already figured out what that answer is.

Dallas Winston: Are you a real red head? Are you real? How can I find out if this is your real red hair? If this is the same red hair you have on your, uh, your, your, these eyebrows.

Hmmmm. But what do the dead say? Did

WHAT YOU ASK IS AGAINST REGULATIONS WHO ARE YOU

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

Onderweg waarheen? Die vraag lijkt nog aan discussie onderhevig.

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky?

are you telling me i can't stay here untill saterday?

I am sorry, Chapter Master,' said Attias, chastened. 'I meant no offence.' 'You caused none,' said Hadariel. 'You simply asked a question, and there is no harm in that. If ever a time comes when the Dark Angels see reason to avoid questions, we will have lost our souls.

Perhaps the funniest example is that of the Rev. Milton Barfoot, who said to Dan's brother, in apparently honest bafflement, "But, isn't Dan afraid of hell?" No, Reverend, Dan doesn't believe in hell anymore, that's one of the things about being an atheist, you see.

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

We are not so much who we are by what we know, but by what we wonder. So go and seek and you shall find. And once you find that, go and seek some more.

But that's crazy!" Pep said. "Who would attack the largest ball of twine in the world?" "The largest cat in the world?" suggested Coke.

Arlo!" Andrea shouted. "Why did you do that?

Bowel movement?

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' — such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

a democracy requires open access to ideas. It requires a willingness to struggle and learn, to question our own suppositions and biases, to open ourselves as citizens, and a nation, to a world of books and thought. If we become a country of superficiality and easy answers based on assumptions and not one steeped in reason and critical learning, we will have lost the foundation of our founding and all that has allowed our nation to grow into our modern United States.

Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through life following a script that others wrote for them.

Say, what's the question mark for? Sexual identity?

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.