Quotes About Questioning

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.

Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait.

If I find some reason for doubt in each of my beliefs, that will be enough to reject all of them.

Pour examiner la vérité, il est besoin, une fois dans sa vie, de mettre toutes choses en doute autant qu'il se peut.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The world is everything that is the case. And in the second place because. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?

Andiamo a casa tua o all'Elaine's?» ha chiesto il ragazzo. Erano le tre del mattino. Aveva divorziato da poco. In quel momento la stessa domanda risuonava nei taxi di tutta New York.

it will be okay. Go to the priest and ask him. Ask him, Will you know me? See what he says.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;

It's hard to imagine there is a God at the moment, isn't it?" he said. "If I was watching this from up in heaven, I'd want to step in and put a stop to it.

One good question and one good answer are services to all. A sure sign of a troubled company is one where employees don't care enough to ask and, if that's the case, they'll never care enough to fully deploy their talent. Just as curiosity is an antidote to boredom and indifference, the informed are more likely to remain interested, engaged, and alive with purpose.

One understands why law clerks follow the Bluebook. But why a judge would direct his law clerks to do so, or even tolerate their doing so, is a mystery to me. Are judges sheep? Why should they care what kids at the Harvard Law Review consider proper abbreviation?

Those who can naively affirm the bumper-sticker slogan, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it," are oblivious to the question-begging inherent in the formulation: there is no escape from the imperative of interpreting the Word. Bumper-sticker hermeneutics will not do.

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical method. It has to be said, over and over, that historical rigor does not consist in fundamental skepticism toward historical testimony but in fundamental trust along with testing by critical questioning…

Una buena pregunta para el candidato es: "¿qué no incluiste en el CV?". Siempre he valorado más la capacidad que la experiencia

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

Who killed Jocie, Ben?"—and Marco could not answer him. "Ben, did I—did I kill Jocie? That could be, couldn't it? Maybe it was an accident, but they wanted me to kill Senator Jordan and—did I kill my Jocie?

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

What did you ask at school today