Quotes About Questioning

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

faith without doubt is addiction

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It's nothing to be admired.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.