Quotes About Questioning

Algunos dieron las mejores respuestas que pudieron, otros admitieron que acababan de plantearse la razón de vivir, y otros fueron más sinceros al responder que no tenían ni la menor idea. ¡En efecto, varios le pidieron al profesor Moorhead que les escribiera de vuelta y les dijera si había encontrado la razón de vivir!

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked.

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God's chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God's chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that?

One of the great "theologians" of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: "When everything gets answered, it's fake. The mystery is the truth."21

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people write this down? What was going on in their world that this was important to them? Why did they feel the need to put words to this? Start with that question. Start with those questions. And see what happens.

Science does an excellent job of telling me why I don't have a tail, but it can't explain why I find that interesting.

This is the opposite of brainwashing. This is the opposite of Just believe and don't ask questions. He keeps inviting people to think critically, to examine, question, doubt, test, struggle. To own it for themselves. I came across this line in the New Testament: Test everything. I love that line. It's

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Why would anybody become a Christian?" That's a question lots of people have—educated, reasonable, modern people who find becoming a Christian an "explosive," not to mention an inconceivable, thing to do.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness

Could it be that every one of all religions is true?

That night he wrote in his diary, Challenge a remaining taboo. It was that simple. He had always wanted to understand genius, and now he had the formula. Freud, living in an age that prized its own seeming rationality, had found one of the remaining taboos and dared to think beyond it: he discovered infant sexuality and the unconscious, among other things. Galileo had gone beyond the taboo Thou shalt not question Aristotle. Every great discovery had been the breaking of a taboo.

From the Sufi: Mullah Nasrudin once entered a store and asked the proprietor, "Have you ever seen me before?" "No," was the prompt answer. "Then," cried Nasrudin, "how do you know it is me?

Who is the Master who makes the grass green? (Zen koan)