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Quotes About Questioning

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
~ Samuel Eliot Morison
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
~ Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
~ Andrew Bird
Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.
~ Alice Cooper
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
~ Charles Olson
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
~ Jimmy Carter
I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false
~ Peter Joseph
I've questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.
~ Taylor Swift
I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
~ F. S Flint
I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.
~ Rick Reynolds
Is there more to see?" Brixton asks. "No. Just a long walk back to hope.
~ D.R. Hedge, The Geri Rogue
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
~ Robert Fulghum
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.
~ Bo Burnham
People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'
~ Emo Philips
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
~ George Carlin
Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
~ Bill Bailey
When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
~ George Carlin
What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
~ George Carlin
Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "What for?"
~ Steven Wright
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
~ Steven Wright