Quotes About Questioning

Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

é difícil pormos em dúvida aquilo que sabemos desde a infância, tardamos em desconfiar disso.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

Learning and knowledge make people think, and doubt and questioning are difficult companions for faith to have.

Philosophy is a dangerous thing for any dogmatic religion; it makes people think.

Tell each person that you want to know how he became so successful in his profession. It's the equivalent of placing a piece of chicken on a ramp.

Cool. A Brit in the fam. Jesslyn, shut up, honey, now's not the time, Aiden said. Well, I think it is. Entirely too serious when everyone should be celebrating...I know if I was ever given a second chance with the children that I'll never get back, I sure as hell wouldn't question the whys or how-comes. It's time for a celebration. More than one. Babies, pregnancies and now marriages...And Darya... Ian looked at Aiden. Is she always like this? Yes, his brother answered him...

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

For instance, one thing we'll need to do is create a climate of questioning ideas without evidence. This is not being "mean" or "bashing" or "unprofessional." It's what' professional scientists do. It needs to become our norm.

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an "accident," as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a "fact" because Newton asked certain questions.

A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius, he would have learned that they do not wait on the accident but begin by setting themselves problems.

Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?

Are you there, Jean-Do?' she asks anxiously over the air. And I have to admit that at times I do not know any more.

Was she in love? Rosalind had asked herself that many times in the last few weeks. Anna's mother said you're in love when you feel like you've been hit by a truck. Rosalind felt bad enough for a motorcycle, maybe, but not a truck.

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)

Think for yourself and figure out what's true. That's it. Ask yourself what's true until you know.

A common example of Spiritual Dissonance would be; If God loves us, why does He allow so much suffering? The certainty of God's love is the internal belief. The obviousness of human suffering is the external reality. Is God unable to end suffering? No, we must answer, because He can do whatever He wants. Therefore, He must allow or even cause suffering. But how can that be if He loves us? Something somewhere has to give or, preferably, we avoid asking the question in the first place.

Nobody likes to have their cherished beliefs dumped on, but dumping on cherished beliefs is the name of the game.

Shaw resented being questioned by the Temple Planning Commission. It felt especially offensive because, besides her constant responsibilities as a foster parent, she had a day job as well, contributing her entire salary to the Temple.

You know who I am? Sure, Pony typed. You're the Queen of the Universe. Flattering, April responded. Wanna fill me in on you? They call me Pony. You're not bad... What do you want to know? … Who's the bad guy? You? Or me?