Quotes About Questioning

You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion.

Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Certainty ends inquiry.

Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.