Quotes About Questioning

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

Whom did I belong to?

Was everything redneck actually mystical?

Net als seks, net als drugs, net als alle manipulaties van onze geest, die eindelijk eens uit je schedel zou willen uitbreken en de wijde wereld in trekken, is literatuur een werktuig dat eerst gelukzaligheid produceert, en vervolgens teleurstelling. Na tienduizend boeken te hebben gelezen, kun je niet om de onvermijdelijke vraag heen: waar was mijn leven al die tijd?

Finding the answer to an eternal question creates bigger questions.

It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting

Only fools are positive.

PROPENSITY OF THE YOUNG TO QUESTION AUTHORITY AND challenge power is now amplified by the More and Mobility revolutions. Not only are there more people than ever under thirty, but they have more—prepaid calling-cards, radios, TVs, cellphones, computers, and access to the Internet as well as to travel and communication possibilities with others like them at home and around the world. They are also more mobile than ever.

La curiosité naît de la jalousie

Going back to Walter's house had been like visiting a cemetery where there were no tidy tombstones recording beginnings and endings but only question marks over the graves.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway leading to my cottage, creeping along behind a battered, rust eaten pick-up truck with a sticker on its rear bumper that read JESUS SAVES, I used to think don't count on it, buster. Now I am no longer sure.

I want to know everything; my curiosity is boundless

Many remarkable advances in knowledge have resulted from our questioning the truth of propositions which we previously regarded as "self-evident." And a critical study of human beliefs reveals how much "interpretation" is present in what at first sight seems like "immediate knowledge.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess

So when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star. He said: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I love not the setting ones.

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world?

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya Hai Ke Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya Hai What should I ask the sages about my origin: I am always wanting to know my goal.

By the tenth he had found religion. He just wasn't sure which one. Whichever god could rescue him from this room he would definitely make a deal with.

Even in some republic nations they still fail to question the motives of their leaders who have gone astray or try to corrupt the nation.

Jesus himself complained that his apostles kept asking for more miracles or proofs, before they could fully believe him. They were full of doubts and he knew it.

People will always believe in something, without proof, just to feed their curiosity.

The effects of using too much reasoning are that we end up questioning the existence of God, or the Creator, including our own existences. To doubt everything, including the weapon, reason itself, which helped us to reach this land of confusion.