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Quotes About Questioning

Suicide is a permanent question.
~ Mariel Hemingway
Every question missed is a potential crisis waiting to happen.
~ Unknown
But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?
~ Marilyn French
We must question every inner-belief we possess without fear or attachment.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]
~ Edward T. Welch
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
~ Learned Hand
One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"
~ Steven Wright
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
~ Mark Twain
I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.
~ Kai Greene
Every time I think What if I am wrong? There is another whisper deep inside which says What if I am right?.
~ Unknown
Every day you need to look yourself in the eye and ask yourself if this is what you should be doing with your life.
~ Unknown
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
~ Gerry Spence
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
~ Oscar Wilde
We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.
~ Kedar Joshi
Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts
~ Richard Feynman
I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
~ Rudyard Kipling
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
~ Unknown
A police officer asked me where I was between 4 and 5? I said kindergarten.
~ Unknown
You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.
~ Benjamin Jowett
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?"
~ Arlo Guthrie
Cum se numea dr?cia aceea frumoas? ?i minunat? ?i nenorocit? ?i caraghioas?, format? de ani, pe care am tr?it-o eu?
~ Unknown
Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.
~ Marina Abramovic
Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master, and never use it to gain mastery over others.
~ Marina Lewycka