Quotes About Questioning

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

She'd left God in the dust quite some time ago.

Art isn't the answer. It's another way of asking the question.

Who, me?" Gary said, grinning.

What did you do?" Scapegrace asked. A series of expressions flitted across Clarabelle's face. First, there was indignation, then there was resignation, followed by hope, chased by confusion, and finally knocked down and sat upon by innocence. "Nothing.

Stephanie, what are you doing here? – Gordon (in the Echo Stone)

I kill Cain," Crux said, pointing a finger back at himself. "Me. Not you, not the vampire, not the idiot." Scapegrace frowned. "Who's the idiot?

That's the problem you face when you deal with Arbiters. We don't answer to anyone. We could arrest you, throw you in a cell, and you'd languish there until we remembered to ask you those questions we'd been meaning to.

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

With knowledge grows doubt.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.