Quotes About Questioning

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

why should the wild child weep for the scientists why

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.

There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? 'None,' replied Father Andrés. 'There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Everything in the cosmos now proves to be relative. Nothing is autonomous in itself. All things in the world betray their interdependence with each other. Metaphysics ceases to be an abstract system of thought and becomes an experiential reality. Not beings in the world but the world itself comes to be questioned.

Awareness of the existence of oneself leads to a crisis in which one's being-in-the-world is fundamentally questioned. One's existence, however, is not simply denied. Instead, one faces the basic fact that one is responsible for one's relations to all humans and other beings through one's acts.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

Adat perempuan dibeli; adat orang tua menjual; kalau harta sudah di tangan apalagi akan dipersoalkan?

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

To create or not to create? That is the new question.