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Quotes About Questioning

De ce facem asa? De ce lucrurile dureroase sunt intotdeauna niste electromagneti?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads.
~ Jonathan Wells
Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
The scariest thing about life that I have yet to face is to know whether or not I lived, for I won't know the answer until I'm dead ~By Jordan
~ Jordan
La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What will my redeemer be like? I wonder. Will he be a bull or a man? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.
~ A. H. Boyd
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
~ A. N. Wilson
Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?
~ A.A. Milne
She'd also begun to feel like this might not be the best place for her after all. "I
~ A.C. Arthur
The sound of the surf came through the wide window and John finished his drink, dropped his cigarette butt in the glass, and said to her, "We've had dinner, we made love, we had a drink. What do we do now?
~ A.C. Greene
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here I am in hell.
~ A.E. Housman
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
~ Abbie Hoffman
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
~ Abraham Kaplan
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
~ Abraham Verghese
He didn't disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to 'live the question,' not push for the answer.
~ Abraham Verghese
Original thinkers doubt the default.
~ Adam Grant
Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that's distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That's the sweet spot of confidence.
~ Adam Grant
Monsters exist," wrote Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. "But they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are . . . the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
~ Adam Hochschild
Go ahead and flunk me for begging the question, then go ahead and fuck yourself for asking it.
~ Adam Levin
Ksi?dz (wstrzymuje) Co to ma znaczy??...szalony! czy mo?na? Odbierzcie mu ?elazo, rozdejmijcie pi??cie. Jeste? ty chrze?cijanin? taka my?l bezbo?na! Znasz ty Ewangelij?? Pustelnik A znasz ty nieszcz??cie?
~ Adam Mickiewicz